Pharmaceutical subsidisation in New Zealand : a comparison of reference pricing with the Johnston-Zeckhauser scheme.

An alternative scheme has been suggested to the reference pricing framework currently used in New Zealand. The subsidisation scheme outlined in Johnston, M and Zeckhauser, R. (1991) The Australian Pharmaceutical Subsidy Gambit: Transmuting Deadweight Loss and Oligopoly Rents to Consumer Surplus offe...

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Main Author: Edlin, Richard Paul
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Economics and Finance 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1998