Drug competition and voluntary exit

Suchin Virabhak and Wook Sohn

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 101, issue 1, 34-37

Abstract: We use a duration model to find evidence that drug exit is exacerbated by generic competition. However, the impact on drug exit of competition with other branded drugs within a drug's therapeutic class is not statistically significant.

Keywords: Drug; competition; Drug; exit; Survival; data; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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