Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries

Résumé

We use data from seven low and middle income countries with diverse drug procurement systems to assess the eect of centralized procurement on drug prices, and provide a theoretical mechanism that explains this eect. Our empirical analysis is based on exhaustive data on drug sales quantities and expenditures over three years for forty important molecules. We nd that centralized procurement of drugs by the public sector leads to lower prices but that the induced price reduction is smaller when the supply side is more concentrated.

Mots-clés

Remplace

Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili et Stéphane Straub, « Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries », TSE Working Paper, n° 19-999, mars 2019, révision décembre 2020.

Référence

Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili et Stéphane Straub, « Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries », European Economic Review, vol. 132, n° 103655, février 2021.