Information disclosure and competitive dynamics: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

J Kao - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper studies how competitive dynamics shape innovative firms' voluntary disclosure of
product quality information. Our empirical context is the pharmaceutical industry, where firms …

Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

We examine the role of spillover learning in sha** the value of exploratory versus
incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates …

Regulatory Spillover and Consumer Welfare: The Case of Pharmaceutical Market Exclusivity Policy

DP Mohapatra, Y Zhang - Available at SSRN 4681298, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies strategic spillovers of regulations intended for a particular market
segment to closely related market segments. We study the US pharmaceutical market …

[PDF][PDF] Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation

R Dix, T Lensman - 2024 - economics.yale.edu
Innovations often combine several components to achieve outcomes greater than the “sum
of the parts.” We argue that such combination innovations can introduce an understudied …

Market Incentives and the Drug Development Pipeline: Evidence from Antibiotics

E Kong, O Zhao - Available at SSRN 4676384, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Pharmaceutical innovation accounts for over one-third of recent life expectancy gains. This
innovation is primarily incentivized by patents and FDA-awarded market exclusivities, but …