industry activities proceeds, national regulation aimed at reducing costs for pharmaceuticals can have the unintended effect of …This paper looks into various means of regulating pharmaceuticals and their effects on the structure of the … international pharmaceutical industry. Regulation adds complexity to the activities of a firm. This complexity is multiplied, if …

patients around the world. Conceptually, the world pharmaceuticals supply market may become increasingly competitive at all …

and South Africa presented a proposal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in October 2020 seeking a waiver of … vaccination is in place globally, and the majority of the world’s population has developed an immunity.” While the proposal has …

world. In the face of exorbitant drug prices, high levels of patient cost-sharing, and pharmaceutical expenditures that … provides a comparative analysis of industry codes of practice and regulation that govern relationships between pharmaceutical …

new products. This paper addresses this gap in the context of new pharmaceuticals (15 new molecules in 34 countries) and … model, we find that differences in regulation substantially contribute to cross-country variation in sales. One of the … regulation such as restrictions of physician prescription budgets and the prohibition of direct-to-consumer advertising tend to …

system and other regulation of drugs is more complex than this simple formulation suggests. Drug regulation operates in …