Mergers and Barriers to Entry in Pharmaceutical Markets
Abstract: After patent expirations in pharmaceutical markets, brand-name laboratories are threatened by generic firms' entry. To fill the gap in the theoretical literature on this topic, we study brand-name firms' incentives either to deter entry, or to merge with the entrant. These strategies are considered along with the possibility of the brand-name firm producing its own generic drug, called a pseudo-generic drug. Using a vertical differentiation model with Bertrand-Stackelberg competition, we show that each strategy, merging and deterring entry, may be Nash equilibrium, according to the generic firm's setup cost level and to the rate of discount
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Sprache
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Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Applied Economics ; 42 (2009) 3 ; 297-309
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2009
- Urheber
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Granier, Laurent
Trinquard, Sébastien
- DOI
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10.1080/00036840701604495
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-242012
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Granier, Laurent
- Trinquard, Sébastien
Entstanden
- 2009