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Multimarket Contact in Pharmaceutical Markets

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  • Javier Coronado

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  • Sergi Jiménez-Martín

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  • Pedro L. Marín

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of multimarket contact on the behavior of pharmaceutical firms controlling for different levels of regulatory constraints using IMS MIDAS database. Theoretically, firms that meet in several markets are expected to be capable of sustaining implicitly more profitable out- comes, even if perfect monitoring is not possible. Firms may find it profitable to redistribute their market power among markets where they are operating. We present evidence for nine OECD countries with different degrees of regulation and show that regulation affects the importance of economic forces on firms' price setting behavior. Furthermore, our results confirms the presence of the predictions of the multimarket theory for more market friendly countries (U.S. and Canada) and less regulated ones (U.K., Germany, Netherlands), in contrast, for highly regulated countries (Japan, France, Italy and Spain) the results are less clear with some countries being

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Paper provided by Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC) in its series UFAE and IAE Working Papers with number 698.07.

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Length: 38
Date of creation: 20 Apr 2007
Date of revision: 18 Jul 2007
Handle: RePEc:aub:autbar:698.07

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Keywords: Pharmaceutical prices; Multimarket Contact; Regulation;

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