Background: Supply chains in pharmaceutical industry encounter constant challenges in balancing the availability of medicine with cost efficiency, particularly in developing regions with limited storage capacity, as regulatory constraints increase operational complexity. Methods: This research...

This study focuses on the effect of multichannel marketing communication in retail pharmacies to establish customer satisfaction in a world experiencing the digitalization of health sectors. The objective of the study is to understand customer acquisition and retention practices, the role of...

Community pharmacies deliver high-quality health care and are responsible for medication safety. The goal of the government is to ensure nationwide, accessible, and affordable medical health-care services provided by pharmacies. Therefore, the per capita density of community pharmacies matters....

In December 2020, Germany implemented a policy restricting online pharmacies from offering rebates on prescription drugs to members of the statutory health insurance. This policy change created a natural experiment, allowing us to analyze its impact on the pharmaceutical market using...

In einer aktuellen Studie im Auftrag von Redcare Pharmacy/Shop Apotheke hat EcoAustria den volkswirtschaftlichen Einfluss des Online-Medikamentenhandels in Österreich untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass digitale Vertriebswege nicht nur die Medikamentenversorgung erleichtern, sondern auch...

This study focuses on the effect of multichannel marketing communication in retail pharmacies to establish customer satisfaction in a world experiencing the digitalization of health sectors. The objective of the study is to understand customer acquisition and retention practices, the role of...

Da der Pharmasektor eine der forschungsintensivsten Branchen weltweit ist, können Übernahmen erhebliche negative wie positive Auswirkungen auf Innovationen haben. In diesem Wochenbericht werden auf Basis von internationalen Unternehmensdaten der Jahre 1997 bis 2017 Übernahmen in der...

Der Fachkräftemangel stellt auch pharmazeutische Unternehmen in Deutschland vor große Herausforderungen und wird dies vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels perspektivisch immer stärker tun. Mit Blick auf die Positionierung Deutschlands im internationalen Wettbewerb innovativer...

Da der Pharmasektor eine der forschungsintensivsten Branchen weltweit ist, können Übernahmen erhebliche negative wie positive Auswirkungen auf Innovationen haben. In diesem Wochenbericht werden auf Basis von internationalen Unternehmensdaten der Jahre 1997 bis 2017 Übernahmen in der...

Background Medicine pricing in the community pharmacy sector in Zimbabwe significantly influences accessibility to health care. In this pilot survey, we investigated how community pharmacies in Zimbabwe apply various mark-up strategies to essential and non-essential medicines, and gathered...

This research's goal is to identify the variables that influence consumers' decisions when they buy prescription drugs online. This study investigates the factors influencing consumers' decisions regarding online pharmacies through a comprehensive investigation of the variables influencing...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly gaining a presence in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically in the reconfiguration of drug delivery systems wherein new products are being developed for administering pharmaceuticals inside the body, and drug testing systems wherein complex tissues...

This paper provides the first quantitative economic models of pharmacy benefit management regulation. The price-theoretic models allow for various market frictions and imperfections including market power, coordination costs, tax distortions, and incomplete innovation incentives. A rigorous...

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical...

"At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical...

We study the impact of legal restrictions pertaining to pharmacy licences on hospitalizations. We use a reform approved in 2012 in Italy that increased the number of pharmacies allowed to operate in the national territory by 8%. We set up a regression discontinuity design exploiting monthly data...

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...

While policymakers routinely limit the sale of goods thought to be of risk to public health, relatively less is known about whether and how these policies affect firm performance. Using 2000-2018 National Establishment Time-Series data and a difference-in-differences strategy, we show that state...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was instituted to bolster the non-profit health care safety net without relying on taxpayer money. It allows participating health care facilities, called covered entities, to purchase drugs filled at in-house or contracted external pharmacies at discounts from...

"In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic remedy theriac became a focus of political and market power. The State Drug examines princes who secured support by regulating theriac and apothecaries who competed to brand their own recipes. So popular that it became ungovernable, theriac is a window into the...

In theory, equilibrium profits for drug patent holders would not involve significant restraints on production and patient utilization if the market had a mechanism for two-part pricing (Oi 1971) or quantity commitments (Murphy, Snyder, and Topel 2014). In fact, patent expiration has little...

In low-and middle-income countries, patients’ access to affordable medicines is a perennial challenge at all levels of healthcare delivery. Community pharmacists are expected to bridge the supply and demand gap. Unlike the plethora of studies done at the hospital and government institutions...

Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why...

Virtual cross-border medical tourism allows many residents in the United States to purchase brand name medicines from companies in Mexico without travelling there. Monthly economic reports indicate that the online brand name pharmaceutical product prices in Mexico are noticeably lower than the...