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Enforcement and Compliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines

In: Regulating Pharmaceutical Prices in India

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  • Ajay Bhaskarabhatla

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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The effectiveness of price control regulations depends as much on the design of the policy as on implementation. Yet rarely if ever studies examine the enforcement and compliance aspects of such price control regulations. In this chapter, we address this gap in the literature by examining the extent of compliance with price ceilings imposed on essential medicines in India in 2013 and how it has changed in response to enforcement efforts. We estimate the extent of noncompliance with the 2013 DPCO and the total overcharged amount. We identify firms and markets with significant levels of noncompliance. We also reflect on whether the regulator has followed a targeted approach to enforcement to induce compliance and whether such targeting has had any impact on overall compliance. We examine efforts by the regulator to ask firms to self-report their prices and whether that has had any impact on inducing compliance.

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  • Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, 2018. "Enforcement and Compliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Regulating Pharmaceutical Prices in India, chapter 0, pages 197-227, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-3-319-93393-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93393-1_8
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