t*****e
发帖数: 224 | 1 为什么国内的进口药超贵？
最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。 | g********r
发帖数: 1458 | 2 price discrimination.
maybe tax
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: 为什么国内的进口药超贵？
: 最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。
| p**e
发帖数: 676 | 3 1. Signaling of high quality (firm's perspective)
2. Chinese consumers' mentality that foreign moon is rounder and thus high
willingness to pay (consumer characteristics)
3. Inelastic demand - yeah, everyone wants to live (product category
characteristics)
为什么国内的进口药超贵？
最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。
【在 t*****e 的大作中提到】
: 为什么国内的进口药超贵？
: 最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。
| t*****e
发帖数: 224 | 4 make sense. but i doubt their effects are large enough to explain the crazily
high price. There must be some institutional arrangements that make this
absurdity happen.
goldenbear mentions "price discrimination". This makes the question even more
puzzling. Usually in price discrimination, producers charge high-end users
high prices, low-end users low prices. (high or low in the sense of marginal
utility) Here the contrary happens. (A common Chinese consumer, much poorer
than a common American c
【在 p**e 的大作中提到】
: 1. Signaling of high quality (firm's perspective)
: 2. Chinese consumers' mentality that foreign moon is rounder and thus high
: willingness to pay (consumer characteristics)
: 3. Inelastic demand - yeah, everyone wants to live (product category
: characteristics)
:
: 为什么国内的进口药超贵？
: 最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。
| p**e
发帖数: 676 | 5 marginal utility of being alive is lower for a Chinese than for an American???
【在 t*****e 的大作中提到】
: make sense. but i doubt their effects are large enough to explain the crazily
: high price. There must be some institutional arrangements that make this
: absurdity happen.
: goldenbear mentions "price discrimination". This makes the question even more
: puzzling. Usually in price discrimination, producers charge high-end users
: high prices, low-end users low prices. (high or low in the sense of marginal
: utility) Here the contrary happens. (A common Chinese consumer, much poorer
: than a common American c
| t*****e
发帖数: 224 | 6 don't get angry, hehe. you know what i mean. however ignoble it sounds, it is
a good assumption that richer people have higher stake in keeping themselve
alive, hence higher "marginal utility of being alive".
American???
crazily
more
marginal
poorer
fancy
for
high
【在 p**e 的大作中提到】
: marginal utility of being alive is lower for a Chinese than for an American???
| p**e
发帖数: 676 | 7 Well, do you know that some same drugs in US is twice more expensive than
in Canada? US is a WTO country..Guess you are right, there must be some
regulations. | p**e
发帖数: 676 | 8 No, I am not angry, but I just don't agree with your statement.
Generally speaking, the desire of "being alive" is so strong and that is
indifferent between a rich and a poor guy. Or put in a different way, it has
positive infinite utility for both guys, since any other utility will be
conditional on the realization of this utility.[1] Thus, everyone is willing
to spend all money (resource) that he/she has to stay alive, which is
consitent with the majority of empirical observations.
So, the fac
【在 t*****e 的大作中提到】
: don't get angry, hehe. you know what i mean. however ignoble it sounds, it is
: a good assumption that richer people have higher stake in keeping themselve
: alive, hence higher "marginal utility of being alive".
:
: American???
: crazily
: more
: marginal
: poorer
: fancy
| g********r
发帖数: 1458 | 9 You can not compare common chinese consumer to Americans. The point is how
many chinese can afford the super-expensive medicine? But, there're some
consumers, who are rich enough to afford the price, otherwise the price won't
be so high.
Maybe the producer does not even care about the common chinese consumer(he
knows they can not afford it), so chinese consumer is really high-end, of
course not all, but some.
And tax, I don't know if there're really high tax on that medicine, but it is
the possi
【在 t*****e 的大作中提到】
: don't get angry, hehe. you know what i mean. however ignoble it sounds, it is
: a good assumption that richer people have higher stake in keeping themselve
: alive, hence higher "marginal utility of being alive".
:
: American???
: crazily
: more
: marginal
: poorer
: fancy
| n****e
发帖数: 135 | 10 1. To protect Chinese pharmaceutical industry, China impose high tariff on new
international drugs. (Tariff)
2. Shipment cost
3. If a new drug is still in the IP right protection time period, the
pharmaceutical company gains market power. It can easily conduct the third
order price discrimination among different countries. If Chinese market is
just a small portion of the company's overall market, the company also can
conduct the first and second order of price discrimination. (Extra price above
【在 t*****e 的大作中提到】
: 为什么国内的进口药超贵？
: 最近一个朋友要我打听一种抗癌新药，其国内价格折换成美元是美国这边的5倍。
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