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...

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Main Authors: Krieger, Joshua, Li, Danielle, Papanikolaou, Dimitris
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144199