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S F Ellison1, I Cockburn, Z Griliches, J Hausman.
Abstract
We model demand for four cephalosporins and compute own- and cross-price elasticities between branded and generic versions of the four drugs. We model demand as a multistage budgeting problem, and we argue that such a model is appropriate to the multistage nature of the purchase of pharmaceutical products, in particular the prescribing and dispensing stages. We find quite high elasticities between generic substitutes and also significant elasticities between some therapeutic substitutes.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID： 11794359
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rand J Econ ISSN： 0741-6261