The price premium of generic to brand-names and pharmaceutical price index

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 731-737

  Kong, Ying ^a  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 2342537920     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000222106     Document Type: Article

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