Maikel Pellens
maikelpellens.bsky.social
Maikel Pellens
@maikelpellens.bsky.social

Senior Researcher @Ku Leuven. Innovation economics, economics of science, food, photography, angry music.

Economics 57%
Business 27%

Absolutely humbled to coauthor with someone who once sat with Mokyr in the same (smallish) conference room.
Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Horrible.

Lord of the Ring: The One Tower.

Condolences, Paul.

Tsja.
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

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It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.

It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.

It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Those were the days

Thinking of the AER thumb paper.

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36801/1/MPRA...

What, she doesn't?

EnDoGeNeItY cOnCeRnS

What the fuck. Reposting for visibility.
"Some unfortunate news from the USPTO - it looks like the agency will be forced to terminate the PatentsView contract, so all the datasets and disambiguation currently available at patentsview.org will likely go offline on March 28."
PatentsView
patentsview.org
"Some unfortunate news from the USPTO - it looks like the agency will be forced to terminate the PatentsView contract, so all the datasets and disambiguation currently available at patentsview.org will likely go offline on March 28."
PatentsView
patentsview.org

I'm definitely not planning on going there anytime soon.

For your Sunday morning, a bit of poetic optimism from this week's Charlemagne column.

I am sure these are great friends having a joyful conversation.

I remember being somewhat shook over this book when it came out. In hindsight, prescient.

Awful news on the IZA.
Awful timing given the funding meltdown in the USA

IZA shutting down its institute in Bonn

Hoping to maintain the scholar network

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...
Awful timing given the funding meltdown in the USA

IZA shutting down its institute in Bonn

Hoping to maintain the scholar network

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...

Very, very well deserved! I will happily attend.

I didn't have *that* on my inauguration bingo card.

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Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

Back at ZEW for a few days. Any takers for a coffee?
Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content.

But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.

sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

R&R days are good days.

At the ZEW CoDE conference today. Good to be back in Mannheim.