Missing Novelty in Drug Development

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We provide evidence that risk aversion leads pharmaceutical firms to underinvest in radical innovation. We introduce a new measure of drug novelty based on chemical similarity and show that firms face a risk-reward trade-off: novel drug can...

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Main Authors: Krieger, Joshua (Author), Li, Danielle (Author), Papanikolaou, Dimitris (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-08-03T17:29:31Z.
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