We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market. There are two pharmaceutical …

We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality …. We show that advertising intensities are strategic substitutes, with the better quality drugs being the ones that are … loyalty is endogenously determined by promotional effort. The model's main results on advertising and pricing strategies are …

) advertising. We use information on: the effect of DTC in generating patient visits; the effect of patient visits and mentions of a … drug in generating prescriptions; and the effect of advertising on the cost effectiveness for specific advertised drugs. In … all cases, we find that DTC advertising does not alter the cost effectiveness of the medications, all of which remain …

This paper examines the impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) of cholesterol-reducing drugs (statins) on … advertising which can then be linked with consumer behavior. Moreover, we are also able to control for the majority of factors … causal impact of advertising on statins use. Finally, because we have individual variation in exposure to advertising we are …

The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are … complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well … roles of physician advertising on the choice of the drug …

We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the … matrices identify diversion ratios, from which we derive comparative advertising damage measures. We find that comparative … advertising causes more damage to the targeted rival than benefit to the advertiser. We simulate banning comparative advertising …

We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the … matrices identify diversion ratios, from which we derive comparative advertising damage measures. We find that comparative … advertising causes more damage to the targeted rival than benefit to the advertiser. We simulate banning comparative advertising …