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Office: E52-452
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E-mail: eberndt@mit.edu
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Area
Economics, Finance, and Accounting
Ernst R. Berndt
Louis E. Seley Professor in Applied Economics
Professor of Applied Economics
The focus of Ernst Berndt's recent research has been on the changing dynamics of the health care industries. He has examined how medical innovations have affected the costs of treating selected diseases over time, factors affecting the globalization of clinical trials (particularly into emerging economies), incentives to induce R&D into third world diseases, how industry funding of the U.S …