On the economic impacts of medical treatments: work productivity and functioning. (2004)
On the economic impacts of medical treatments: work productivity and functioning.
On the economic impacts of medical treatments: work productivity and functioning. (2000)
El objetivo de este documento es brindar un enfoque global de tres recientes estudios que examinan el impacto económico de las enfermedades y los tratamientos médicos en la productividad y...
Intermedia Substitutability and Market Demand by National Advertisers
Alvin Silk, Lisa Klein, Ernst Berndt
Intermedia substitutability, national advertising,
The Impact of Anaemia and its Treatment on Employee Disability and Medical Costs
Ernst Berndt, William Crown, Joel Kallich, Stacey Long, Xue Song, Gary H. Lyman
Objective: Anaemia is a common haematological complication of cancer and cytotoxic treatment. The incremental economic burden associated with medical care and short-term disability of anaemia in...
Ernst Berndt, Joel Kallich, Anne McDermott, Xiao Xu, Howard Lee, John Glaspy
Objective: Cancer-related anaemia is associated with fatigue that adversely affects patients' everyday functioning and wellbeing. We explore the impact of fatigue on patient productivity and...
An empirical investigation of the box-cox model and a nonlinear least squares alternative
Ernst Berndt, Mark Showalter, Jeffrey Wooldridge
In this paper we present a generalized functional form estimator, recently developed by jeffrey Wooldridge; and then we compare it empirically to the popular Box-Cox (BC) estimator using three data...
Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business
We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...
Assessing the Impacts of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA) on the FDA Approval Process
Ernst Berndt, Adrian Gottschalk, Tomas Philipson, Matthew Strobeck
Congress enacted and renewed the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA) in 1992, and renewed it in 1997 and 2002, mandating FDA performance goals in reviewing and acting on drug applications within...
William Crown, Ernst Berndt, Onur Baser, Stan Finkelstein, Whitney Witt, Jonathan Maguire, ...
The ratio of controller-to-reliever medication use has been proposed as a measure of treatment quality for asthma patients. In this study we examine the effects of plan-level mean out-of-pocket...
Demand Effects of Recent Changes in Prescription Drug Promotion
Meredith Rosenthal, Ernst Berndt, Julie Donohue, Arnold Epstein, Richard Frank
The release of clarified Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines and independent changes in consumer behavior provide an opportunity to study the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising...
Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity in Mental Health Care
Susan Busch, Ernst Berndt, Richard Frank
Economists have long suggested that to be reliable, a preferred medical care price index should employ time-varying weights to measure outcomes-adjusted changes in the price of treating an episode of...
Is Price Inflation Different for the Elderly? An Empirical Analysis of Prescription Drugs
Ernst Berndt, Iain Cockburn, Douglas Cocks, Arnold Epstein, Zvi Griliches
Recently controversy has surrounded the issue of whether Social Security payments to the elderly should continue to be adjusted automatically according to changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI)....
Real Output in Mental Health Care during the 1990s
Ernst Berndt, Alisa Busch, Richard Frank, Sharon-Lise Normand
Health accounts document changes over time in the level and composition of health spending. There has been a continued evolution in the ability to track such outlays. Less rapid has been the ability...
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst Berndt, James Davis, Alvin Silk
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the...
Measuring the Energy Efficiency and Productivity Impacts of Embodied Technical Change
Ernst Berndt, Charles Kolstad, Jong-Kun Lee
Using data from the manufacturing sectors in the United States, Canada and France, we distinguish the energy efficiency and productivity impacts of embodied and unembodied technological progress. We...