New Policy Regime and Small Pharmaceutical Firms in India

Determinants of Profitability in Indian Pharmaceutical Firms in the New Intellectual Property Rights Regime

This study investigates the firm level determinants of profitability of Indian drug and pharmaceutical industry. The study uses inflation adjusted panel data for a period 2000-2013 and applies OLS regression model with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors. It has been found that export intensity, A&M intensity, firm’s market power and stronger patent regime dummy have exercised positive influence on ...

Small software firms in India: A descriptive analysis

Despite extensive investigation of the Indian software industry, knowledge about small software firms is inadequate. This knowledge is important as many developing countries are contemplating the software industry as a means of national growth along the lines that India has taken. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of small software firms in India. It shows that small software firms tha...

The Impact of Owners and Policy on Small Firms

How important are differences in owner personal characteristics (risk tolerance or optimism) versus the environment in which a firm operates (bankruptcy institutions or access to credit) for firm financial structure, size, owner net-worth and welfare? To answer this question we construct a dynamic, computable model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous default in which entrepreneurs weigh th...

1 Decisions of Pharmaceutical Firms for New Product Development

Modeling the Impact of an Outcome- Oriented Reimbursement Policy on Clinic, Patients, and Pharmaceutical Firms

Tackling the steep increase in drug costs is an especially important issue among many health care providers and insurers. To entice the clinics to become more cost efficient, the U.S. federal government, as well as many HMOs, have developed various cost containment initiatives recently. However, the impact of these initiatives on the patients’ well-being, the clinic’s profitability, and the pha...