Pharmaceutical enterprises integrity supervision strategy when considering rent-seeking behavior and government reward and punishment mechanism
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.To ensure pharmaceutical integrity, government oversight and third-party testing agencies must penalize rent-seeking. Increased reporting by wholesale enterprises and reduced supervision costs also promote drug production integrity.
Area Of Science
- Pharmaceutical Science
- Public Health Policy
- Game Theory Applications
Background
- Pharmaceutical enterprise integrity is vital for public health, social stability, and national security.
- Effective supervision relies on government oversight and third-party testing agency conduct.
- Rent-seeking behaviors can undermine pharmaceutical integrity.
Purpose Of The Study
- To analyze the strategic interactions influencing pharmaceutical integrity.
- To investigate the impact of rent-seeking and reward-punishment mechanisms.
- To identify optimal strategies for government, enterprises, and testing agencies.
Main Methods
- Construction of an evolutionary game model incorporating rent-seeking.
- Integration of drug production enterprises, third-party testing agencies, government regulators, and drug wholesale enterprises.
- Analysis of stable equilibrium points and strategy stability using Lyapunov's first method and Matlab simulations.
Main Results
- Third-party agencies rejecting rent-seeking incentivizes production integrity; increased penalties for rent-seeking are recommended.
- Higher reporting likelihood by wholesale enterprises boosts production integrity and agency integrity, dependent on reporting costs.
- Reduced government supervision costs and increased rent-seeking costs for agencies deter dishonest practices.
- A balanced reward-punishment system fosters government supervision, enterprise self-discipline, and social harmony.
Conclusions
- The study provides theoretical insights into pharmaceutical integrity supervision.
- Recommendations are offered for enhancing countermeasures and policy design.
- Optimizing reward-punishment mechanisms is key to a trustworthy pharmaceutical ecosystem.
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