Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution

We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies’ incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version instead. We show that pharmacies’ substitution incen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Other Authors: Holmas, Tor Helge (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/25144
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/25144