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Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence From the Pharmaceutical Industry

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  • Daron Acemoglu
  • Joshua Linn

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This paper investigates the effect of (potential) market size on entry of new drugs and pharmaceutical innovation. Focusing on exogenous changes driven by U.S. demographic trends, we find that a 1 percent increase in the potential market size for a drug category leads to a 4 to 6 percent increase in the number of new drugs in that category. This response comes from both the entry of generic drugs and new non-generic drugs, and is generally robust to controlling for a variety of non-profit factors, pre-existing trends

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 10038.

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