Scope economies in the pharmaceutical sector |
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Authors: | Maria Letizia Giorgetti |
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Institution: | (1) Center for Real Estate Research, Department of Real Estate & Planning, The University of Reading Business School, Reading, RG66AW, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper’s objectives are twofold: to propose an experimental simulation to measure scope economies between pairs of submarkets
and to point out the role of submarkets in explaining the concentration level in the pharmaceutical market. We simulate scope
economies consistent with the diversification choices of large international companies in the years 1987 and 1997. Our results
suggest that: i) the random diversification (that is no scope economies hypothesis) is rejected, and ii) scope economies are
significant. (JEL: C15, D21, L11, L65) |
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