Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Colby Access Only)
Department
Colby College. Economics Dept.
Advisor(s)
Randy A. Nelson
Second Advisor
David W. Findlay
Abstract
The scope of investment managers has increased to include many niche strategies such as predicting drug development outcomes. Pharmaceutical firms must submit a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after the completion of their clinical trials in order to get the final regulatory approval before they can market the drug. In this paper, I search for the stock market’s ability to accurately predict designations before the actual announcement for 116 PDUFA dates. I find that the market is able to predict approval designations by the FDA and that this predictive power is stronger for smaller capitalization firms.
Keywords
medicine, food and drug administration, markets
Recommended Citation
Abe, Thomas D., "Can the Stock Market Predict FDA Approvals for New Drug Applications?" (2013). Honors Theses. Paper 672.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/672
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