This article examines how the nature of competition between brands in a therapeutic category changes after generic entry and provide a framework for analyzing the effect of generic entry on consumer welfare that takes into account the generic free riding problem. It demonstrates that changes in competition along dimensions other than retail price--such as competition in research and development...

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Quasi-stable ideals appear as leading ideals in the theory of Pommaret bases. We show that quasi-stable leading ideals share many of the properties of the generic initial ideal. In contrast to genericity, quasistability is a characteristic independent property that can be effectively verified. We also relate Pommaret bases to some invariants associated with local cohomology, exhibit the existen...

Two decades ago, a phenomenon resembling Landau damping was described in the synchronization of globally coupled oscillators: the evidence of a regime where the order parameter decays when linear theory predicts neutral stability for the incoherent state. We here show that such an effect is far more generic, as soon as phase oscillators couple to their mean field according to their natural freq...