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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Pharmaceutical innovation"”.
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Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation
… studies how insurance coverage policies impact pharmaceutical innovation. In the United States, most patients obtain prescription drugs through insurance plans administered by Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). Beginning in 2012, PBMs began refusing to provide coverage for many newly approved …
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Redefining how pharmaceutical innovation gets done
… of research and development in the bio-pharmaceutical industry has been constantly declining since the early 2000's. One possible reason is that biomedical projects are risky, take a long time, and require significant investment. Hence, substantial capital has been shifted away from the …
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Determinants of Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Property Rights Approach
… profound implications for business policy in the pharmaceutical industry. It provides a holistic approach to the impact that firm characteristics have on value created by new drug introduction. Awareness of the relative importance of such characteristics can enable management to better focus their …
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Market Heterogeneity and Drug Innovation
The Induced Innovation Hypothesis (IIH) describes the causal effect of market size (i.e., product demand) on innovation output - larger value markets offer larger profit potential which leads to higher rates of new product entry. Empirical literature has supported the IIH but the estimated effects …
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Essays on innovation in health care markets
This thesis consists of three chapters on innovation in health care markets. The first chapter examines incentives in pharmaceutical innovation; the second explores selection in the response to recommendations in health care. The third chapter presents new evidence on determinants of recent drug …
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Economics of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
… three essays which investigate the economics of innovation in the healthcare industry. In Chapter 2 I use a global data set to measure the effect of health losses and average patient income on innovation in different therapeutic areas. I show that the average patient income is a strong predictor …
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Profit incentives and technological change
… essays on the effect of profit incentives on innovation and technology adoption. Chapter 1, written with Daron Acemoglu, investigates the effect of (potential) market size on entry of new drugs and pharmaceutical innovation. Focusing on exogenous changes driven by U.S. demographic trends, we …
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The Application of Article 102 TFEU in the Pharmaceutical Sector
… were already under strain and the pace of pharmaceutical innovation was under scrutiny. One proposed tool to address these issues has been the enforcement of competition law, as suggested in the Commission’s 2020 Pharmaceutical Strategy. Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the …
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Essays in pharmaceutical economics
This thesis consists of three empirical essays in pharmaceutical economics, which explore the role regulation plays in influencing firm behavior. In the first chapter I examine competition in the neglected disease submarket of the biopharmaceutical industry. Using a combination of novel panel data …
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Patent law and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
… the critical role of patents in incentivizing pharmaceutical innovation, it underscores significant challenges posed by the current patent framework, which often prioritizes intellectual property rights over public health needs. The main research question is ‘To what extent does patent law …
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Essays on Managing Healthcare Ecosystems
… transplantation and blood supply chains, to pharmaceutical innovation, research and development, and manufacturing and distribution, the healthcare ecosystem is wide ranging in both its functions and stakeholders. This dissertation aims to better understand, evaluate, and address major …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
… studies the causal effects of the ACA on pharmaceutical prices, demand, and innovation using a difference-in-differences framework with continuous treatment intensity. The identification strategy exploits plausibly exogenous variation in medical conditions’ exposure to different ACA …
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Three Essays on Health Care and Industrial Organization
… the provision of generous insurance plans, and innovations in medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. This dissertation studies how innovation in insurance plan design and pharmaceuticals affect health care prices, consumer behavior, consumer welfare, and the labor market. It also looks at …
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PHARMACEUTICAL PATENTS AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN GLOBAL PANDEMICS. MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE OR MUTUALLY REINFORCING? A POST COVID-19 INQUIRY INTO THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
La pandemia di COVID-19 ha colpito il mondo nel 2020, causando una crisi sanitaria ed economica senza precedenti. Le profonde disuguaglianze che hanno caratterizzato la distribuzione dei vaccini tra gli Stati hanno riacceso dibattiti mai sopiti sul ruolo e sugli effetti che la protezione …