Price Discrimination Across Indications in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Case of Finasteride
December 2005
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Social Science Research Network
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TLDR Proscar and Propecia, two drugs with the same ingredient but different dosages, have different prices, showing price discrimination in the pharmaceutical industry.
The document, written in December 2005, examined the price differential between two prescription drugs, Proscar and Propecia, both containing the same active ingredient, finasteride, but in different dosages. The study argued that this price differential represented an instance of price discrimination across different indications of the same substance in the pharmaceutical industry.
