generic pharmaceuticals during the first four years after the reform. The results also show that the price adjustment was not …

and quantities of pharmaceuticals prescribed by physicians working at these health centres differ significantly from those … prescribed by physicians at health centres with open-ended budgets. Estimation results using matching methods, which allows us to … affect physicians' prescription behaviour. …

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects …

We analyze changes in the willingness to substitute from prescribed pharmaceuticals to more affordable generic … dispensed pharmaceuticals, we employ a dynamic event study and an instrumental variable approach to show that an initial …

of brand name pharmaceuticals, while the results regarding generics are less clear. In the empirical part of the paper …, the introduction of the substitution reform in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market in October 2002 is used as a natural … reform has lowered the price of both brand name and generic pharmaceuticals …