Reference pricing, competition, and pharmaceutical expenditures : theory and evidence from a natural experiment

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical dif...

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Main Author: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Other Authors: Holmås, Tor Helge (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Pharmaceuticals
Regulation
Generic competition
Social Sciences
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11958
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/11958

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11958

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