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This chapter describes the market for pharmaceuticals, which exceeded $500 million in sales in 2010. The industry is …
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We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R … industry. Within a fairly general model framework, we derive exact conditions for advertising and R&D being substitute … strategies for the incumbent firm and show that it may overinvest in advertising to reduce the incentive for an entrant to invest …
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This paper investigates one of the largest pharmaceutical markets using a discrete choice model that allows marketing to affect product differentiation. Four main results emerge from an analysis of monthly panel data on antiulcer drugs from 1977 to 1993. Observed drug characteristics became less...
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In this article we analyse the problem of determining the price for new drugs in a market where a stringent budget constraint on public expenditure exists and we suggest an innovative methodology to set their prices. The market is characterised by asymmetry of information and a high proportion...
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We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R … industry. Within a fairly general model framework, we derive exact conditions for advertising and R&D being substitute … strategies for the incumbent firm and show that it may overinvest in advertising to reduce the incentive for an entrant to invest …
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Using a reduced form binary econometric model, we analyze the determinants of pharmaceutical companies entry decisions into new submarkets. Our sample includes data for pharmaceutical companies over the period 1987-1998 for seven countries. Estimation is done both at the aggregate level and at a...
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This paper analyzes the optimal content regulation of direct-to-consumer advertisement (DTCA) in a pharmaceutical market, with particular focus on the distinction between product and enlightenment advertisement. Firms are allowed to freely promote their own specific products under product DTCA,...
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We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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