A CRA expert provided input to the Canadian Competition Bureau in its evaluation of the proposed merger of two branded pharmaceutical manufacturers. CRA’s team considered the ability and incentive of the merging parties to increase the price of a branded pharmaceutical following the merger. Aspects of this consideration included setting out the features of list and net pricing of branded drugs in the Canadian pharmaceutical marketplace, and the various constraints and factors that bear on those prices.
The Role of Uncertainty in the Future European Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Lessons Learned From Illumina/GRAIL
Under these circumstances, it is however not entirely clear how the future competitive landscape will look like, merger effects cannot be modelled with a high...