pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent … office. Exploiting variation in the timing of patent decisions, we estimate that a molecule receiving a patent experienced an … by just one firm when the patent system began. Our results also show little impact on quantities sold or on the number of …

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries … duration and content of patent and price control regimes. Price regulation strongly delays launch, while longer and more … extensive patent protection accelerates it. Health policy institutions, and economic and demographic factors that make markets …

off-patent markets can improve the efficiency of pharmaceutical spending. Various policies are used to promote competition … among off-patent medicines, but generally do not induce competition in on-patent markets. While tendering is widely used for … medicines still subject to patent protection or regulatory exclusivity. The OECD undertook an extensive analysis consisting of …