Retail price regulation and innovation: reference pricing in the pharmaceutical industry.

Retail Price Regulation and Innovation: Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry1

Our paper is a …rst attempt to evaluate the long run impact of reference pricing on pharmaceutical innovation, health and expenditures. The model is based on a dynamic game involving three types of agents: pharmaceutical …rms, consumers and a regulatory entity. Pharmaceutical …rms choose the level of research investment and its innovative content, then negotiate introductory prices for new drug...

اخلاق و حقوق رقابت در صنعت داروسازی

The pharmaceutical industry plays an important role in every economy. Although pharmaceutical sector has distinctive economic features, like every other sector of the economy, the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals must obey competition law rules. The provisions regarding unilateral anticompetitive conduct such as discriminatory pricing, aggressive price setting, abusing a domina...

Revenue management and seller pricing decisions in retail industry: An agent-based model

A Case Study of Pharmaceutical Pricing in China: Setting the Price for Off-Patent Originators

This article aims to define a value-based approach to pricing and reimbursement for off-patent originators using a multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach centered on a systematic analysis of current pricing and reimbursement policies in China. A drug price policy review was combined with a quantitative analysis of China's drug purchasing database. Policy preferences were identified...

[Drug prices: how they are established and existing price control systems].

Price is one of the main barriers of access to medicines. It is therefore important to understand how prices are formed and what factors determine the amount, as well as what interventions and regulations are the most appropriate considering their effects on access, innovation, local production and other potential objectives of drug policy. Economic analysis has developed a set of market models...