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Trials, tricks and transparency: how disclosure rules affect clinical knowledge
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Autor/a:
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Dahm, Matthias; González, Paula; Porteiro Fresco, Nicolás
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Altres autors:
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
Resum:
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Scandals of selective reporting of clinical trial results by pharmaceutical firms have underlined the need for more transparency in clinical trials. We provide a theoretical framework
which reproduces incentives for selective reporting and yields three key implications concerning regulation. First, a compulsory clinical trial registry complemented through a voluntary
clinical trial results database can implement full transparency (the existence of all trials as
well as their results is known). Second, full transparency comes at a price. It has a deterrence
effect on the incentives to conduct clinical trials, as it reduces the firms'gains from trials.
Third, in principle, a voluntary clinical trial results database without a compulsory registry
is a superior regulatory tool; but we provide some qualified support for additional compulsory registries when medical decision-makers cannot anticipate correctly the drug companies'
decisions whether to conduct trials.
Keywords: pharmaceutical firms, strategic information transmission, clinical trials, registries, results databases, scientific knowledge
JEL classification: D72, I18, L15 |
Data de publicació:
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2008 |
Matèries (CDU):
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338 - Situació econòmica. Política econòmica. Gestió, control i planificació de l'economia. Producció. Serveis. Turisme. Preus |
Matèries:
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Indústria farmacèutica Comunicació científica Assaigs clínics Coneixement científic |
Drets:
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Tipus de document:
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Document de treball |
ISSN:
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1988 - 0812
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Col·lecció:
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Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2008-01
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