We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals … analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …

This paper investigates price patterns of off-patent pharmaceuticals in Sweden. I show that price dynamics are … competition in which the demand for pharmaceuticals incorporates the known biases of consumers: habit persistence and brand … preferences. Using the regulated market of Swedish pharmaceuticals, I show that price may help in identifying possible tacit …