industry activities proceeds, national regulation aimed at reducing costs for pharmaceuticals can have the unintended effect of …This paper looks into various means of regulating pharmaceuticals and their effects on the structure of the … international pharmaceutical industry. Regulation adds complexity to the activities of a firm. This complexity is multiplied, if …

This chapter describes the market for pharmaceuticals, which exceeded $500 million in sales in 2010. The industry is … also characterized by extensive regulation of almost every activity, from product development through manufacturing and …

regulation, and not by price differences in line with the hypothesis of "regulatory arbitrage". …

We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals …

This paper studies the effect of pharmaceutical regulation at the wholesale level, if markets are integrated by …

We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals …

manufacturer) on pharmaceutical regulation in a North-South framework with a firm's endogenous decision to export to the South … via reimbursement limits. Parallel trade may relax regulation in the source country of parallel imports (South) and … intensify regulation in the destination country (North): In the source country, parallel trade may relax regulation both under a …

This paper analyzes the optimal content regulation of direct-to-consumer advertisement (DTCA) in a pharmaceutical … typical subjective symptoms under enlightenment DTCA. The content regulation changes the nature of market competition and the … of the content regulation is ambiguous and depends, among other things, on the cost effectiveness of advertisement and …