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Expected Profits and the Scientific Novelty of Innovation

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig; Hermosilla, Manuel - 2022

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …

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The Role of Assets in Place : Loss of Market Exclusivity and Investment

Higgins, Matthew John; Kronlund, Mathias; Park, Ji Min; … - 2022

We utilize a novel identification strategy to analyze the impact of assets in place on firms' decisions for future projects. We exploit the context in the pharmaceutical industry, where the loss of market exclusivity for a branded drug can be used to separate the impact of cash flows generated...

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The Future of Drug Development : The Economics of Pharmacogenomics

Vernon, John A.; Hughen, W. Keener; Vernon, John A. - 2021

This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance...

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The Cost of Us Pharmaceutical Price Reductions : A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions

Abbott, Thomas A.; Vernon, John A. - 2021

Previous empirical studies that have examined the links between pharmaceutical price controls, profits, cash flows, and investment in research and development (R&D) have been largely based on retrospective statistical analyses of firm- and/or industry-level data. These studies, which have...

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Private and Social Returns to R&D : Drug Development and Demographics

Benmelech, Efraim; Eberly, Janice; Krieger, Joshua; … - 2022

Investment in intangible capital—in particular, research and development—increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...

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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012

Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...

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Cost-Offsets of New Medications for Treatment of Schizophrenia

Frank, Richard G. - 2010

Broad claims are frequently made that new medications will offset all or part of their costs by reducing other areas of Medicaid spending. In this paper we examine the net impact on spending for new drugs used to treat schizophrenia. We extend research in this area by taking a new approach to...

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Missing Novelty in Drug Development

Krieger, Joshua - 2018

This paper provides evidence that risk aversion leads pharmaceutical firms to underinvest in radical innovation. We …

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Starving (or Fattening) the Golden Goose? : Generic Entry and the Incentives for Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Innovation

Branstetter, Lee - 2015

stage pharmaceutical innovation? We explore this question using novel data sources and an empirical framework that models … implications of our results for long-run welfare, policy, and innovation …

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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Premature Cancer Mortality in Canada, 2000-2011

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2015

of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation … that pharmaceutical innovation during the period 1985-1996 reduced the number of years of potential life lost to cancer …

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