Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 119 No. 3 2004
Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
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Abstract
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 a large effect of potential market size on the entry of nongeneric drugs and new molecular entities. These effects are generally robust to controlling for a variety of supply-side factors and changes in the technology of pharmaceutical research.
- DOI
- 10.1162/0033553041502144
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1049-1090
- Language
- en
- Sources
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