Chief Economist at IP Australia. Views are entirely my own, except for when they‘re others.
Joined March 2009
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michael falk retweeted
6 Feb 2023
Daron Acemoglu has a new paper that argues that markup differences, externalities and other social considerations can distort the DICRECTION of innovation.
Distortions are substantial in industrial automation, health care, and energy.
nber.org/papers/w30922
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michael falk retweeted
20 Dec 2022
Ok we need so solve this debate😂
Do you agree with the original patent on the direction for rolling toilet paper?
Leave your votes down below!⬇️
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michael falk retweeted
I often wonder how unprepared we are for deepfake technology
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michael falk retweeted
1 Nov 2022
Interesting: only three people in the USA were qualified to hand-pack the parachutes for Apollo 15. Their expertise was so vital, they were not allowed to ride in the same car together for fear that a single auto accident could cripple the space program.
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michael falk retweeted
11 Oct 2022
The ultimate clustering standard errors paper just dropped:
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?
by some big names in the field :)
academic.oup.com/qje/advance…
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michael falk retweeted
3 Oct 2022
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michael falk retweeted
30 Sep 2022
this is glorious
French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together….. the outcome is fucking brilliant. 😂
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michael falk retweeted
28 Sep 2022
Can you please describe your methodology?
My methodology:
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michael falk retweeted
24 Sep 2022
love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is
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michael falk retweeted
24 Sep 2022
*Car shopping with my wife*
Her: “Why do you keep asking about what software they use at the dealership instead of about the car?”
Me: “…Did you not read my vertical SaaS article?”
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michael falk retweeted
24 Sep 2022
When a startup inventor’s first patent is acquired by an an incumbent firm it has a negative effect on the productivity of the patent’s inventor.
The inventor is granted 6.7 fewer patents over the next five years.
Another dark side of acquisitions?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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michael falk retweeted
22 Sep 2022
History of economics is no fancy dinner talk, no crossword puzzle, not for like or dislike. It's a scientific subfield that a discipline incapable of reflexivity has decided to stop teaching & publishing. The way it's being discussed by some economists here is just demeaning
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michael falk retweeted
16 Sep 2022
Pleased to share our paper ‘Patent Transactions and the Use of Blockchain Technology’, presented at @epip2022 at the University of Cambridge. Thomas Gils and I claim that powering #patent registers with #blockchains could facilitate (global) patent trade. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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michael falk retweeted
9 Sep 2022
When macroeconomists do causal inference.
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michael falk retweeted
3 Sep 2022
1000 drones flying in fluid formation — the largest assemblage ever at Burning Man. Produced by Drift Robotics, it filled the sky with mesmerizing beauty.
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michael falk retweeted
3 Sep 2022
the trolley problem, solved at last
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Less than two weeks to go until the launch of this year's
@AssociationEpip 2022 conference on "Opening IP for a better world?"
@Cambridge_Uni. Watch out for the release of the near-final (we hope) detailed session programme early next week!
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