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This chapter describes the market for pharmaceuticals, which exceeded $500 million in sales in 2010. The industry is …
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In this article we analyse the problem of determining the price for new drugs in a market where a stringent budget constraint on public expenditure exists and we suggest an innovative methodology to set their prices. The market is characterised by asymmetry of information and a high proportion...
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We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R … industry. Within a fairly general model framework, we derive exact conditions for advertising and R&D being substitute … strategies for the incumbent firm and show that it may overinvest in advertising to reduce the incentive for an entrant to invest …
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Using a reduced form binary econometric model, we analyze the determinants of pharmaceutical companies entry decisions into new submarkets. Our sample includes data for pharmaceutical companies over the period 1987-1998 for seven countries. Estimation is done both at the aggregate level and at a...
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This paper analyzes the optimal content regulation of direct-to-consumer advertisement (DTCA) in a pharmaceutical market, with particular focus on the distinction between product and enlightenment advertisement. Firms are allowed to freely promote their own specific products under product DTCA,...
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We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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This paper analyzes the optimal content regulation of direct-to-consumer advertisement (DTCA) in a pharmaceutical market, with particular focus on the distinction between product and enlightenment advertisement. Firms are allowed to freely promote their own specific products under product DTCA,...
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The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the responses by general practitioners to promotional activities for ethical drugs by pharmaceutical companies. Promotion can be beneficial as a means of providing information, but it can also be harmful in the sense that it lowers price...
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This paper examines the optimal content regulation of DTCA by comparing two forms of DTCA-product-specific and category-specific-and identifies a key tradeoff which underlies this policy debate. Our analysis suggests that the optimal form of DTCA depends crucially on the cost effectiveness of...
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