@michaelrfalk

Chief Economist at IP Australia. Views are entirely my own, except for when they‘re others.

Joined March 2009
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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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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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I often wonder how unprepared we are for deepfake technology
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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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Wordle 490 3/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Draaaaamaaaaa ;)
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Asjad Naqvi@AsjadNaqvi11 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…

When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?*

Abstract. Clustered standard errors, with clusters defined by factors such as geography, are widespread in empirical research in economics and many other d

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Ufuk Akcigit
@ufukakcigit3 Oct 2022
Coming out soon! @johnvanreenen @HarvardUPLondon hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?… – at Chicago, IL
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Elijah Wood
@elijahwood30 Sep 2022
this is glorious
AFC GLEN
@AFC_GLEN30 Sep 2022
French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together….. the outcome is fucking brilliant. 😂
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Can you please describe your methodology? My methodology:
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love this Hilary Mantel explanation of what history actually is
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*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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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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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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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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When macroeconomists do causal inference.
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Matt Clancy@mattsclancy6 Sep 2022
New post! mattsclancy.substack.com/p/w…
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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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Will Oremus
@WillOremus3 Sep 2022
the trolley problem, solved at last
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EPIP 2022@epip20222 Sep 2022
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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