This paper uses macro-level data between 1997 and 2008 to evaluate the effects of China's pharmaceutical price … regulations. We find that these regulations had short-run effects on medicine price indices, reducing them by less than 0 … price of substitute or complementary medicines, they increased expensive medicine imports …

In this article we analyse the problem of determining the price for new drugs in a market where a stringent budget … because it is only through research that it is possible to obtain better drugs. Our proposed method allows to set the price of …

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 …

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 … preferences. Using the regulated market of Swedish pharmaceuticals, I show that price may help in identifying possible tacit … dependent on the number of competitors in the market. The price patterns follow predictions from a model of dynamic price …

Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to …-payments by the drug's price relative to its reference price. In this two-tier system, prescription drugs are completely exempted … from co-payments if their prices undercut a certain price level relative to the reference price. We identify the effect of …

This paper studies the effect of two regulatory instruments - a price cap and a reference price system - a mandatory … n differentiated generic versions. The price cap reduces only the brand-name price, the reference price system reduces … the brand-name price and generic prices. Both regulatory instruments reduce the generic market share and the number of …

. Governments in both countries may limit prices directly via price caps or restrict third-party payer reimbursement for the drug … price cap and a reimbursement limit under certain conditions. In the destination country, parallel trade has no effect on … the level of regulation under a price cap, and it intensies regulation under a reimbursement limit.Parallel trade may …