pharmaceuticals and, in particular, its price-setting system. The bill endorsed by the German parliament in late 2010 will … to health care, including pharmaceuticals. Given pressure on public budgets and rising expenditure for healthcare …, national governments have introduced mechanisms to regulate healthcare services provision and set prices of pharmaceuticals. As …

structural model to measure the extent to which ERP policies affect access to innovative drugs across Europe. We find that ERP …

EU countries closely regulate pharmaceutical prices whereas the U.S. does not. This paper shows how price constraints …&D spending grew at a real 5.4 percent rate. Results show that EU consumers enjoyed much lower pharmaceutical price inflation …