Dalen, Dag Morten; Strøm, Steinar; Haabeth, Tonje - 2005
In March 2003 the Norwegian government implemented yardstick based price regulation schemes on a selection of drugs … experiencing generic competition. The retail price cap, termed “index price”, on a drug (chemical substance) was set equal to the … barriers of entry for generic drugs and to trigger price competition. Using monthly data over the period 1998-2004 for the 6 …