International Reference Pricing in the Context of US Drug Policy

Richard Frank is the Leonard D. Schaffer Chair at the Brookings Institution and director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy. He also is the Margaret T. Morris Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. From 2014 to 2016 he served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation with the US Department of Health and Human Services.

rfrank@brookings.edu

Rena M. Conti is an associate professor with Boston University's Questrom School of Business, Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law. She also is codirector of the university's Technology Policy and Research Institute and is an expert in the economics of the pharmaceutical industry.

Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also is the former director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and former president of the American Society of Health Economists. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society.