Mr Andreas Stierwald

PhD Student
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Room 641
Tel. +61 3 8344 2183
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email a.stierwald@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Andreas joined the Melbourne Institute in February 2006 as a PhD student. He graduated in 2001 at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. During the PhD his research activity will focus on intellectual property and the economics of innovation. His thesis topic will be ‘ Anti-competitive patent activity within a given patent system: The case of Australia 's industry’.

From 2002 until 2004 Andreas has previously worked as a research assistant at the Halle Institute for Economic Research. Projects he was involved in concentrated on the evaluation of public subsidy programs for private enterprises and on general surveys of the economic development.

He also has been a visitor to the Melbourne Institute in 2004/2005 when he undertook research assistant work for the Applied Microeconomic Research Program, compiling a dataset of international patent examination outcomes from the Japanese Patent Office.