Price and Antitrust

 
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Commission Regulation (EC) No 240/96 of 31 January 1996 on the application of Article 85 (3) of the Treaty to certain categories of technology transfer agreements http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/1996/en_396R0240.html 
Commission evaluation report on the transfer of technology block exemption regulation n° 240/96 (44 pages)
Technology transfer agreements under article 81
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/competition/antitrust/technology_transfer/en.pdf 
Federal Council - Message relatif à la révision de la loi sur les cartels - http://www.evd.admin.ch/dynamic/dm/LOI_SUR_LES_CARTELS/F/MESSAGE/Message_relatif_a_la_revision_de_la_loi_sur_les%20cartels.pdf 
Importations parallèles et droit des brevets Rapport du Conseil fédéral du 8 mai 2000 en réponse à la question de la Commission de l'économie et des redevances du Conseil national (CER) du 24 janvier 2000 - (from page 38) http://www.evd.admin.ch/dynamic/dm/LOI_SUR_LES_CARTELS/F/MESSAGE/Message_relatif_a_la_revision_de_la_loi_sur_les%20cartels.pdf 
Congressional Leaders’ Soft Money Accounts Show Need for Campaign Finance Reform Bills First of Public Citizen Reports on “527” Groups Reveals Corporate Influence on Broadband, Tobacco and Money-Laundering Policies (48 pages) http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF45A.PDF 
AMEX Pharmaceutical Index http://www.amex.com/asp/option_chain.asp?symbol=DRG&selected=DRG 
K Balasubramaniam - Equitable Pricing, Affordability and Access to Essential Drugs in Developing Countries: Consumers Perspective - WTO - (12 pages) http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/hosbjor_presentations_e/35balasubramaniam_e.pdf 
Leu Investment Research - Sector Report: Pharmaceuticals Europe – Hopes Focus on Biotechnology - December 2001 - (57 pages) http://www.leu.ch/pdf/pharma_en.pdf 
Address by Joel I. Klein - Cross-Licensing and Antitrust Law -Before the American Intellectual Property Law Association - San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio, Texas - May 2, 1997 http://www.apeccp.org.tw/doc/USA/Policy/speech/1123.htm 
Rika Onishi Mortimer - Demand for Prescription Drugs: The Effects of Managed Care Pharmacy Benefits - (57 pages) http://econwpa.wustl.edu:8089/eps/hew/papers/9802/9802002.pdf 
Anna Merino-Castelló - The impact of the reference price system on the pharmaceutical market: a theoretical approach- February, 2000 - (32 pages) http://www.econ.upf.es/deehome/what/wpapers/postscripts/524.pdf 
Gray, Sidney Skogsvik, Kenth - The Valuation Relevance of Voluntary Disclosures: A Comparative Analysis of the Disclosure Behaviour of Major Pharmaceutical Companies in Sweden and the UK - (25 pag http://www.econ.upf.es/deehome/what/wpapers/postscripts/524.pdf 
Gregory S. Crawford and Matthew Shum - Uncertainty and Learning in Pharmaceutical Demand - February 2000 - (42 pages) ftp://ftp.econ.duke.edu/pub/gsc/match.pdf 
Elli Malki - Intellectual property and the valuation of biotechnology companies: GEN-dex versus Dow Jones - (11 pages) http://econwpa.wustl.edu:8089/eps/fin/papers/9709/9709002.pdf 
US - 106TH Congress 1ST Session H. R. 626 - "Health Care Research and Development and Taxpayer Protection Act’’ http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_cong_bills&docid=f:h626ih.txt.pdf  
Thomas Aronsson Mats A. Bergman and Niklas Rudholm - The Impact of Generic Competition on Brand Name Market Shares: Evidence from Micro Data- December 1997 - (22 pages) http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/papers/hastef0274.pdf  
CPTECH - Frequently Asked Questions About HR 626, the `Health Care Research and Development and Taxpayer Protection Act' http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/econ/rp-faq.html 
Guillem López-Casasnovas Jaume Puig-Junoy - Review of the Literature on Reference Pricing - April 14th, 2000 - (47 pages) http://www.econ.upf.es/deehome/what/wpapers/postscripts/362.pdf 
WHO WTO - Report of the Workship on differential pricing and financing of essential Drug - April 2001 - (27 pages) http://www.who.int/medicines/library/edm_general/who-wto-hosbjor/wholereporthosbjorworkshop-fin-eng.pdf 
S. Jacobzone - Pharmaceutical Policies on OECD Countries : Reconciling Social and Industrial Goals - Labour Market and Social Policy - Occasional Papers No. 40 - (100 pages) http://www.olis.oecd.org/OLIS/2000DOC.NSF/c5ce8ffa41835d64c125685d005300b0/c125685b0057c558c12568c400331a1e/$FILE/00075948.PDF 
EMEA - EMEA/H/30313/98 Revision 1 Procedure for Notifications of Parallel Distribution of Centrally Authorised Medicinal Products - (page 4) http://www.emea.eu.int/pdfs/human/parallel/3031398en.pdf 
WHO, MSF and others - Sources and prices of selected drugs and diagnostics for people living with HIV/AIDS. May 2001 - (38 pages) http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/hivrelateddocs/sourcesandprices31may01.pdf 
WHO - Application for Inclusion of didanosine on WHO Model List of Essential Medicines http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/edl/didanosine.doc  
USTR - Report on Switzerland's barriers to trade - (4 pages) + foreword http://www.ustr.gov/reports/nte/2002/switzerland.PDF  http://www.ustr.gov/reports/nte/2002/foreword.PDF 
Léo-Paul Lauzon & Marc Hasbani - Analyse socio-économique de l'industrie pharmaceutique brevetée pour la période de dix ans (1991-2000) - Avril 2002 http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cese/etude24pharm/pharmtab.html 
Communication concernant l'appréciation des accords verticaux - Décision de la Commission de la concurrence du 18 février 2002 http://www.wettbewerbskommission.ch/site/f/medien/Medienmitteilungen.Par.0027.Pic2.pdf 
NERA - Thomas R. McCarthy Scott J. Thomas - Antitrust Issues Between Payers and Providers - 2002 - (34 pages) http://www.nera.com/wwt/publications/3673.pdf 
Public Citizen - Pharmaceuticals Rank as Most Profitable Industry, Again “Druggernaut” Tops All Three Measures of Profits In New Fortune 500 Report - (15 pages) http://www.citizen.org/documents/fortune500_2002erport.PDF 
Public Citizen - Rebuttals to PhRMA Responses to the Public Citizen Report, "Rx R&D Myths: The Case Against The Drug Industry’s R&D 'Scare Card' http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/articles.cfm?ID=6514 
Public Citizen - Drug Industry Most Profitable Again New Fortune 500 Report Confirms “Druggernaut” Tops Other Industries In Profitability Last Year - 2001 - (9 pages) http://www.citizen.org/documents/4.11.PDF  
Public Citizen - Critique of the DiMasi/Tufts Methodology and Other Key Prescription Drug R&D Issues http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/articles.cfm?ID=6532 
High Level Group Set to Improve Equality of Access to New Medicines Across EU NEWS RELEASE Innovative Medicines and the EU Citizen – Swedish Session - (3 pages) http://dg3.eudra.org/F3/g10/docs/g10w_250102_2.pdf 
FTC - Analysis to Aid Public Comment and Complaint and Agreement of FTC case against Biovail Corporation http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/04/biovailanalysis.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/04/biovaildecision.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/04/biovailcomplaint.htm 
FTC - Analysis to Aid Public Comment - AHP unlawfully agreed with Schering-Plough Corporation to delay selling its generic version of Schering's K-Dur 20, http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/02/ahpanalysis.htm 
FTC - FTC Staff Opposes Alaska Proposal to Allow Physician Collective Bargaining - Proposed Legislation Would Significantly Increase Consumer Health Care Costs - January 2002 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/01/alaskaphysicians.htm 
Rapport de la Commission de gestion du Conseil des Etats - Influence de la Confédération sur la maîtrise des coûts dans le domaine de la loi sur l’assurance-maladie – Analyse de deux exemples précis - 5 avril 2002 - (22 pages) http://www.parlament.ch/F/Veroeffentlichungen/Kommissionsberichte/KVG_GPK_S_f.pdf 
Mesures de maîtrise des coûts dans la LAMal - Mesures et marge de manœuvre des organes responsables de la Confédération Synthèse à l’attention de la Commission de gestion du Conseil des États - November 30, 2001 - (35 pages) http://www.parlament.ch/F/Veroeffentlichungen/Kommissionsberichte/KVGSynthese_PVK_f.pdf 
Fortune's rating of pharmaceutical industry http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/indsnap_41.html 
USTR Information on NAFTA http://www.ustr.gov/regions/whemisphere/nafta.shtml 
Richard Cookson - The Role of Industry in Evaluation of Health Interventions - (20 pages) http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/lsehsc/pdf_files/industry.pdf 
Julian Le Grand. - The Provision of Health Care: Is The Public Sector Ethically Superior To The Private Sector? (21 pages) http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/lsehsc/pdf_files/DP1.pdf 
Adam Oliver - The End of The Beginning: Eliciting Cardinal Values For Health States - (26 pages) http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/lsehsc/pdf_files/dp2oliver.pdf 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' - Conference on Pharmaceutical Pricing Practices, Utilization, and Costs August 8th & 9th http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/Drug-papers/index.htm 
Gregory G. Kelly - Improving the PPI Sample for Prescription Pharmaceuticals - December 1999 - (26 pages) http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/research/projects/productivity/workshops/19991217_01.pdf 
Pharmaceutical Industry Competitiveness Task Force - Final Report – March 2001 - (95 pages) http://www.doh.gov.uk/pictf/pictf.pdf 
Azizkhon Jafarov - Selection of essential drug lists in Central Asian Republics. Comparison and discrepancies - May 2002 http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/richardl/RPM+_Project/Aziz.htm 
Sean Nicholson Patricia M. Danzon Jeffrey McCullough - Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality - January 2002 - (46 pages) http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/biodeals.pdf 
Patricia M. Danzon - Differential Pricing for Pharmaceuticals: Reconciling Access, R&D and Patents - (23 pages) http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/commissionfinal12.15.01.pdf 
Patricia M. Danzon - Making Sense of Drug Prices - Regulation Volume 23, No. 1 - (8 pages) http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/SenseDruPri2000.pdf 
Patricia M. Danzon, Li-Wei Chao - Cross-national price differences for pharmaceuticals: how large, and why? - Journal of Health Economics 19 2000 159–195 - (37 pages) http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/CrossNational2000.pdf 
Patricia M. Danzon - Price Discrimination for Pharmaceuticals: Welfare Effects in the US and the EU." International J. of the Economics of Business." 4(3) 1997 http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/Welfare_Effects_1997.pdf 
Patricia M. Danzon - The Pharmaceutical Industry - (37 pages) http://hc.wharton.upenn.edu/danzon/PDF%20Files/5880book.pdf 
Richard T. Rapp & Adam Lloyd - "Civilized" Pharmaceutical Price Regulations: Can The U.S. Have It Too? - The Cato Review of Business & Government http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n2/reg17n2-rapp.html 
David A. Balto & James F. Mongoven - Antitrust Enforcement in Pharmaceutical Industry Mergers - Food and Drug Law Journal - (24 pages) http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/54_3/art%201.pdf 
Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge e-based economy before the FTC and the DOJ on February 26, 2002 - (35 pages) http://www.bio.org/ip/pdf/ftc022002.pdf 
U.S. DOJ - Health Care Business Review Letters Inssued (Since 1993 Issuance of DOJ/FTC Health Care Antitrust Statements of Enforcement Policy: Current as of 1/27/97) http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/busreview/1032.htm 
Richard G. Parker & David A. Balto - The Evolving Approach to Merger Remedies [published in Antitrust Report (May 2000)] http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/other/remedies.htm 
Speech of Mary L. Azcuenaga - The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Adaptations, Aphorisms and Advancing the Debate http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/azcuenaga/alis.htm 
U.S. DOJ - Antitrust Division Health Care Task Force - Recent Enforcement Actions http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/health_care/2044.htm 
FTC - FTC Antitrust Actions in Pharmaceutical Services and Products - Washington D.C. 20580 May 30, 2000 http://www.ftc.gov/bc/rxupdate.htm 
David Reiffen and Michael R. Ward - Generic Drug Industry Dynamics - FTC - February, 2002 - (60 pages) http://www.ftc.gov/be/workpapers/industrydynamicsreiffenwp.pdf 
Speech of Timothy J. Muris, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of Senate Washington, D.C. April 23, 2002 on the pharmaceutical industry http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/04/pharmtestimony.htm 
GAO - Prescription Drugs: Spending Controls in Four European Countries (Chapter Report, 05/17/94, GAO/HEHS-94-30). http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=gao&docid=f:he94030.txt 
GAO - DOD and VA Health Care - Jointly Buying and Mailing Out Pharmaceuticals Could Save Millions of Dollars - May 25, 2000 - (26 pages) http://www.presidentshealthcare.org/pdffiles/he00121t.pdf 
Josha P. Cohen - PBMs and a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit - Food and Drug Law Journal - (10 pages) http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/55_3/art3.pdf 
GAO - Prescription Drug Benefits - Applying Private Sector Management Methods to Medicare - March 22, 2000 - (15 pages) http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00084t.pdf 
GAO - Medicare: Considerations for Adding a Prescription Drug Benefit (Testimony, 06/23/99, GAO/T-HEHS-99-153). http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=he99153t.txt&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao 
FDA - Cyber Letters 2000/2001/2002 http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/cyber2000.htm  http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/cyber2001.htm  http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/cyber2002.htm 
Priced out of Reach - How WTO patent policies will reduce access to medicines in the developing world - Oxfam 4 http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/priced/priced.rtf 
WHO, WHO medicines strategy Expanding access to essential drugs Report by the Secretariat - (6 pages) http://www.who.int/gb/EB_WHA/PDF/WHA55/ea5512.pdf 
(federal) Bill S. 812 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide greater access to affordable pharmaceuticals. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_bills&docid=f:s812is.txt.pdf 
U.S. DOJ - TAP Pharmaceutical. Products Inc charged with Health Care Crimes http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/October/513civ.htm 
Département fédéral de l’intérieur - L’assurance-maladie sociale Analyse - Séance spéciale du Conseil fédéral du 22 mai 2002 - (55 pages) http://www.bsv.admin.ch/aktuell/presse/2002/f/02052301.pdf 
Arrêt du TF sur la cession de créance à la pharmacie de l'assuré contre la caisse-maladie: page 50 à 57 http://www.bsv.admin.ch/publikat/rkuv/d/rkuv0106.pdf 
The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation - Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs - revised May 6, 2002 - (19 pages) http://www.nihcm.org/spending2001.pdf 
Barents Group LLC - Factors Affecting the Growth of Prescription Drug Expenditures - July 9, 1999 - (44 pages) http://www.nihcm.org/FinalText3.PDF 
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (and LDI Issue Brief on sale of Prescription Drugs Over the Internet) http://www.upenn.edu/ldi/ http://www.upenn.edu/ldi/issuebrief5_3.pdf 
Commission de gestion du Conseil des Etats - Rapport - Requête à l’autorité de surveillance des cantons concernant la jurisprudence du Conseil fédéral en matière de recours contre les décisions tarifaires des gouvernements cantonaux April 2002 - 28 p http://www.parlament.ch/F/Veroeffentlichungen/Kommissionsberichte/KVGTarife_GPK_S_f.pdf 
Panos Kanavos - Overview of Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Regulation in Europe - LSE Health and Social Care - (31 pages) http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F3/g10/docs/synthesis.pdf 
Ronald F. White and Sean Fraley - Imperfect Competion, Price-Fairness, and the Pharmaceutical Industry http://www.stthom.edu/cbes/oje/articles/white.html 
FTC Charges Drug Manufacturers with Stifling Competition in Two Prescription Drug Markets - Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. / Andrx Corp.; / Abbott Laboratories / Geneva Pharmaceuticals - March 16, 2000 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/03/hoechst.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/03/genevaabbpttanalysis.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/03/hoechstandrxcomplaint.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/03/abbottcmp.htm 
Resolving Competitive Concerns, FTC Agreement Clears $182 Billion Merger of SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome - December 18, 2000 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/12/skb.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/12/glaxoana.htm  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/12/glaxotrustagree.pdf  http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/12/glaxosmithklinecmp.pdf 
FTC - Decision and Order - Docket No. C-3725 - In the Matter of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz http://www.ftc.gov/os/1997/9704/c3725.do.htm 
Société Suisse des Pharmaciens d'Officine - Convention 2000 avec les assurances-maladie - Analyse http://www.sspo.ch/Convention.htm 
National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences (CCNE) France - Technical progress, health and societal models : the ethical dimension of collective choices N°57 - March 20, 1998 - (47 pages) http://www.ccne-ethique.org/english/pdf/avis057.pdf 
Working document tiered pricing for medicines exported to developing countries, measures to prevent their re-importation into the EC market and tariffs in developing countries 22 April, 2002 http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/pdf/med_wd.pdf 
TFA - Federal Insurance Tribunal - court decision on musicotherapy - I 510/00 Mh - April 29, 2002 http://wwwsrv.bger.ch/cgi-bin/AZA/MapProcessorCGI_AZA?mapfile=pull/ConvertDocFrameCGI.map&ri=fr&lang=fr&ds=AZA_pull&d=29.04.2002_I_510%2f00&pa=2%7emusicotherapie%4010%7emusicotherapie%404%7e& 
OTA - International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care - OTA-BP-H-135 - 1994 http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1994/9417/9417.PDF 
OTA - International Health Statistics: What the Numbers Mean for the United States - OTA-BP-H-116 - 1994 http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1994/9418/9418.PDF 
OTA - Pharmaceutical R&D: Costs, Risks, and Rewards - OTA-H-522 - 1993  http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1993/9336/9336.PDF 
Joint Economic Committee - Health Insurance Tax Credits: the Wrong Prescription for the Uninsured - February 13, 2002 - (13 pages) http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/106th/Reports/hitaxcredit13feb2002.pdf 
Funding First - Exceptional Returns: The Economic Value of America's Investment in Medical Research - report - May 2000 - (16 pages) http://www.laskerfoundation.org/reports/pdf/exceptional.pdf 
Funding First .- Economic Returns of Medical Research - Recent research papers - (282 pages) http://www.laskerfoundation.org/reports/pdf/economic.pdf 
Joseph A. DiMasi - Price Trends for Prescription Pharmaceuticals 1995-1999 - Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development -- August 2000 http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/Drug-papers/dimassi/dimasi-final.htm 
Assurance-maladie : Mesures et train de réformes du Conseil fédéral et du DFI - July 3, 2002 http://www.ofas.admin.ch/aktuell/presse/2002/f/02070303.htm  http://www.ofas.admin.ch/aktuell/presse/2002/f/02070304.pdf http://www.ofas.admin.ch/aktuell/presse/2002/f/02070307.pdf  http://www.ofas.admin.ch/aktuell/presse/2002/f/02070308.pdf 
Kaiser Family - State Health Facts on-line http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgets&subcategory=Prescription+Drug+Trends&topic=Change+in+Retail+Prescription+Sales 
National Council - debate on the initiative "La santé à un prix abordable" http://www.parlament.ch/ab/frameset/d/n/4605/24029/d_n_4605_24029_24149.htm 
Darden - University of Virginia - Genzyme/Geltex pharmaceuticals joint venture- - (do not copy status) - (15 pages) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID200849_code991214200.pdf?abstractid=200849 
Productivity Commission 2001 - International Pharmaceutical Price Differences, Research Report, AusInfo, Canberra. - July 2001 - (225 pages) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID277602_code010731670.pdf?abstractid=277602 
Sara F. Ellison & Christopher M. Snyder - COUNTERVAILING POWER IN WHOLESALE PHARMACEUTICALS
MIT - Department of Economics - Working Paper 01-27 - July 2001 - (40 pages)
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Price Supervisor, Annual Report 1998, DPC 1998/5, at 818. http://www.monsieur-prix.admin.ch/dynamic/rapport/98_JB/F/Rapport_annuel_1998.pdf 
Price Supervisor, Annual Report 1997, DPC 1997/5 at 726-728. http://www.monsieur-prix.admin.ch/dynamic/rapport/97_JB/F/Rapport_annuel_1997.pdf 
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Price Supervisor, Wettbewerbsmängel bei der Preisgestaltung der Medikamente in der Schweiz, Ein Beitrag zur Revitalisierung - Phase 2, Study of the Price Supervisor with the assistance of the Competition Commission (19 pages) http://www.monsieur-prix.admin.ch/dynamic/etude/STUDIE_MEDIKAMENTE/F/wettbewerb.pdf 
Decision of the Swiss Federal Insurance Tribunal - Assura against Canton of Geneva - regarding reimbursement of hospital expenses - November 30, 2001 http://www.bger.ch 
John Barton, Differentiated pricing of patented products, ICRIER Working Paper n° 63 - March, 2001 - (27 pages) http://www.icrier.res.in/pdf/barton63.PDF 
Loi fédérale du 18 mars 1994 sur l'assurance-maladie (LAMal); RS 832.10 http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/8/832.10.fr.pdf 
Ordonnance du 27 juin 1995 sur l'assurance-maladie (OAMal); RS 832.102 http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/8/832.102.fr.pdf 
Ordonnance du 29 septembre 1995 sur les prestations dans l'assurance obligatoire des soins en cas de maladie (O sur les prestations de l'assurance des soins, OPAS); RS 832.112.31 http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/8/832.112.31.fr.pdf 
Loi fédérale du 20 mars 1981 sur l'assurance-accidents (LAA); RS 832.20 http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/8/832.20.fr.pdf 
Ordonnance du 19 décembre 1983 sur la prévention des accidents et des maladies professionnelles (O sur la prévention des accidents, OPA); RS 832.30 http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/8/832.30.fr.pdf 
South Centre, Working Papers on Trade-Related Agenda, Development and Equity (T.R.A.D.E.) http://www.southcentre.org/publications/pubindex.htm 
Alan Sager, Deborah Socolar, Cutting Prescription Drug Spending by Paying Federal Supply Schedule Prices - Boston University - August 2000 - (49 pages) http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/hs/sager/Cutting%20Rx%20prices%20in%208%20northeast%20states%202%20Aug%2000.pdf 
Message du Conseil fédéral concernant l'initiative populaire pour des médicaments à moindre prix - May 12, 1999 - (25 pages) http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/1999/6813.pdf 
Swiss Federal Council, Message concernant l’initiative populaire "La santé à un prix abordable (initiative-santé)“ du 31 mai 2000 . FF 2000 3931 - (54 pages) http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/2000/3931.pdf 
Federal Council - Message relatif à l’initiative populaire «pour un approvisionnement en médicaments sûr et axé sur la promotion de la santé
(Initiative sur les médicaments)» du 1er mars 2000 - FF 200 1964- (16 pages)
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La situation en droit des cartels - Rapport à l’attention de la Commission de gestion du Conseil national du 11 octobre 2000 - FF 2001 3191 - (62 pages) http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/2001/3191.pdf 
European Commission - XXIXth Report on Competition Policy 1999 - (pages 400) http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/annual_reports/1999/en.pdf 
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Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF120 V 76 -May 12, 1976 - regarding admission of a pharmaceuticals to the reimbursement list http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/120_V.html 
Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF 118 V 274 - December 4, 1992 - regarding reimbursement of a pharmaceuticals by a sickness insurance company http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/118_V.html 
Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF107 V 167 - June 4, 1981 - regarding reimbursement of a pharmaceutical by a sickness insurance company http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/107_V.html 
Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF 109 V 197 - April 14, 1983 - regarding pharmaceuticals' admission to the reimbursement list http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/109_V.html 
Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF 105 V 186 - September 10, 1979 - regarding pharmaceuticals' admission to the reimbursement list http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/105_V.html 
WIPO, Parallel Imports in Pharmaceuticals: Implications for Competition and Prices in Developing Countries http://www.wipo.org/about-ip/en/studies/pdf/ssa_maskus_pi.pdf 
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FTC - Statement of Susan A. Creighton, Deputy Director, Bureau of Competition Regarding FTC Settlement with Hearst Corporation - November 20, 2001 - news release http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/11/hearst.htm 
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European Commission - June, 2001 - (98 pages)
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ComCo - Droit et Politique de la Concurrence 98/3 - (185 pages) http://www.wettbewerbskommission.ch/site/f/dpc/dpc.Par.0002.Pic2.pdf 
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Complaint of the State of Nevada v. Abbott - January 2002 - (40 pages) http://ag.state.nv.us/agpress/2002/02_0117a.pdf 
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