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Mergers with interfirm bundling: a case of pharmaceutical cocktails

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Pharmaceutical cocktails often consist of two or more drugs produced by competing firms. The component drugs are often also sold as stand‐alone products. We analyze the effects of a merger between two pharmaceutical firms selling complements for colorectal cancer treatment. In this setting there are two merger effects: the standard upward pricing pressure due to firms internalizing the substitution between the stand‐alone products, and an additional effect where the firms internalize the impact of selling complements and reduce the price of the cocktail product. The net impact of a merger is a modest price increase, or even a price decrease.

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Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

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FuenteThe RAND Journal of Economics
Cuartil año de publicaciónNo disponible
Volumen48
Issue3
Páginas810 - 834
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ISSN0741-6261

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