기사
Entry and regulation: evidence from health care professions /
- 개인저자
- Schaumans, Catherine ;, Verboven, Frank
- 수록페이지
- 949-972 p.
- 발행일자
- 2008.12.24
- 출판사
- Rand Corp.
초록
[영문]In many countries, pharmacies receive high regulated markups and are protected from competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an empirical entry model for pharmacies and physicians with two features: entry restrictions and strategic complementarities. We find that the entry restrictions have directly reduced the number of pharmacies by more than 50%, and also indirectly reduced the number of physicians by about 7%. A removal of the entry restrictions, combined with a reduction in the regulated markups, would generate a large shift in rents to consumers, without reducing the availability of pharmacies. The public interest motivation for the current regime therefore has no empirical support.