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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in China: Pricing and Production Decisions with Price-Sensitive and Uncertain Demand

doi: 10.3390/su14137551
In this paper, we apply game theory to study the price competition between drugstores and hospitals in China’s pharmaceutical supply chain. Motivated by drug shortages and price disparity problems, we build a simplified model with one supplier, one hospital, and one drugstore in which the sellers sell one kind of drug and compete on price. The hospital receives a discount from the government when ordering the drug and both sellers face a price-sensitive and uncertain demand. The existence and uniqueness of a Nash equilibrium are proved and closed-form solutions are found for linear demand cases. We characterize the pricing and ordering decisions of the hospital and drugstore. The analysis shows that high ex-factory price, high price sensitivity, and a small discount are three factors contributing to drug shortages. We consider two special kinds of linear demand to obtain insights into the drug price disparity problem.
- UNSW Sydney Australia
- Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology China (People's Republic of)
- Nanjing University China (People's Republic of)
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data China (People's Republic of)
- Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology China (People's Republic of)
game theory, Environmental effects of industries and plants, pharmaceutical supply chain, TJ807-830, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, pharmaceutical supply chain; pricing; game theory; price-sensitive and uncertain demand, Environmental sciences, pricing, price-sensitive and uncertain demand, GE1-350
game theory, Environmental effects of industries and plants, pharmaceutical supply chain, TJ807-830, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, pharmaceutical supply chain; pricing; game theory; price-sensitive and uncertain demand, Environmental sciences, pricing, price-sensitive and uncertain demand, GE1-350
