Drug launch timing and international reference pricing

Nicolas Houy and Izabela Jelovac

No 1301, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: This paper analyzes the timing decisions of pharmaceutical firms to launch a new drug in countries involved in international reference pricing. We show three important features of launch timing when all countries reference the prices in all other countries and in all previous periods of time. First, there is no withdrawal of drugs in any country and in any period of time. Second, there is no strict incentive to delay the launch of a drug in any country. Third, whenever the drug is sold in a country, it is also sold in all countries with larger willingness to pay. We then show that the three results do not hold when the countries only reference a subset of all countries. The first two results do not hold when the reference is on the last period prices only.

Keywords: Drug launch timing; international reference pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 L65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Drug launch timing and international reference pricing (2013)
Working Paper: Drug launch timing and international reference pricing (2013)
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