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

distinction seems to emerge. On the one hand, systems that rely on market-based competition in pharmaceuticals promote a clear …

Given the cost of trade and availability of pharmaceuticals, the driving force for parallel trade is the price … availability of pharmaceuticals for parallel trade should increase price competition in the destination country. Using 2003 …

benefit management on behalf of insurance plans serves these and other purposes in both monopoly and oligopoly provider …

This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …

Cooperative advertising is an important mechanism used by manufacturers to influence retailers' promotional decisions …. In a typical arrangement, the manufacturer agrees to reimburse a fraction of a retailer's advertising cost, known as the … subsidy rate. We consider a case of new product adoption of a durable good with retail oligopoly, in which a manufacturer …

This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …

We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We … substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising relative to social optimum. We also find that the more viewers dislike … ads, the more likely it is that welfare is increasing in the number of advertising financed TV channels. A publicly owned …