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The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect.


ABSTRACT: The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this article, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect using detailed drug sales data from the global pharmaceutical industry. The core of our empirical strategy is the observation that a country's exogenous demographic composition can be used as a predictor of the diseases that its inhabitants are most likely to die from and, in turn, the drugs they are most likely to demand. We find that the correlation between predicted home demand and sales abroad is positive and greater than the correlation between predicted home demand and purchases from abroad. In short, countries tend to be net sellers of the drugs they demand the most, as predicted by Linder (1961) and Krugman (1980).

SUBMITTER: Costinot A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451965 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect.

Costinot Arnaud A   Donaldson Dave D   Kyle Margaret M   Williams Heidi H  

The quarterly journal of economics 20190121 2


The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this article, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect using detailed drug sales data from the global pharmaceutical industry. The core of our empirical strategy is the observation that a country's exogenous demographic composition can be used as a predictor o  ...[more]

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