Date of Award

2012-01-01

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Economics

Advisor(s)

Thomas M. Fullerton

Abstract

The objective of this study is to further examine medicine price differences between the United States and Mexico. In particular, online pharmacy price differentials between the two countries have yet to be studied as closely as they have for other economies. The t-tests fail to reject the hypotheses of equal prices. However, the data is not normally distributed. A Wilcoxon test is performed to for the formal null hypothesis of price equality. The results indicate that medicines in online Mexican pharmacies are less expensive than their American competitors by a statistically significant margin.

Language

en

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Size

31 pages

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Francisco Javier Pallares

Included in

Economics Commons

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