Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation
Abstract
We provide a theoretical framework to contribute to the current debate regarding the tendency of pharmaceutical companies to direct their R&D toward marketing products that are "follow-on" drugs of already existing drugs, rather than toward the development of breakthrough drugs. We construct a model with a population of patients who can be treated with drugs that are horizontally and vertically differentiated. In addition to a pioneering drug, a...
Paper Details
Title
Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation
Published Date
Dec 1, 2016
Journal
Volume
50
Pages
286 - 297
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