Let me inform you of the following research seminar.

Date: October 12 (Thu.) , 2023
Time: 5:20PM - 6:50PM
Venue: 11th Floor, Bldg.No.2 Meeting Room B & ZOOM (HyFlex)
Speaker: Haruo Kakehi (Keio University)
Organizer: Takuya Hasebe
Language: Japanese

Title: The Role of Pharmacist in Generic Pharmaceutical Adoption

Abstract: This study investigates the role of pharmacists in the patients' choices in generic pharmaceuticals. Literature shows patients prefer authorized generics (AG) on average due to their high perceived quality. We show that patient AG preferences are heterogeneous and depend on pharmacies, which shapes the for-profit pharmacist AG's dispensing choice as the comparative advantage. Our empirical results confirm that a significant variation exists in the comparative advantage, explaining pharmacists' AG dispensing behavior. We also find that patients' preference changes with the information pharmacists provide, which results in heterogeneous comparative advantage and AG dispensation.

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