VoxTalks Economics

S7 Ep43: Digital access and infectious disease

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the global spread of Covid, governments were forced to rely on NPIs – non-pharmaceutical interventions – such as masks and social distancin...

S7 Ep42: The economics of strategy

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Organisations don’t just provide employment: they solve, or attempt to solve, important problems in our society. Organisational economics has made s...

S7 Ep41: The EU miracle

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2004 75 million people in 10 countries joined the EU. Their GDP per capita has grown dramatically in the last 20 years – but how much of that is ...

S7 Ep40: The economic burden of burnout

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today doctors recognise the symptoms of burnout from work-related stress. It’s a common problem, but one that can have serious, long-term consequenc...

S7 Ep39: Getting cash transfers right

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sending regular small sums of money to households or individuals are go-to policy. Should these transfers be universal or targeted? And how big, and h...

S7 Ep38: Do billionaires pay taxes?

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Data about the personal finances of the richest people in our society is hard to find. A team of economists in France have attempted to answer a quest...

S7 Ep37: When development creates conflict

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Economic development, especially in Africa, often implies improving crop agriculture. But many rural populations are pastoralists, grazing their cattl...

S7 Ep36: Competence vs gender

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Women are under-represented in politics. If women aren’t chosen to stand for election, and voters are biased against them when they do, what can bre...

S7 Ep35: Improving digital payments for social protection

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.  It’s infuriating when you’re expecting a digital payment to arrive, it is lost in the syste...

S7 Ep34: The next generation: PSE 2024

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest podcast from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024, we feature three of the young economists who made their mark at the conference. Tim Phillip...

S7 Ep33: The effects of disability hiring quotas

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More new research from the CEPR-PSE Symposium 2024.  More than 100 countries have some form of quota regulation that requires firms to hire people w...

S7 Ep32: Will tax or finance get us to net zero?

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If we’re going to get to net zero in time, economists argue that carbon taxation alone is the best policy. But less than a quarter of emissions are ...

S7 Ep31: Location, location, location

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The first in a series of VoxTalks Economics based on some of the most interesting presentations from the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024. Imagine that one ...

S7 Ep30: It’s a dirty job

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If we want to help millions of working people who have high-polluting jobs to find news work during the green transition, first we need to know more a...

S7 Ep29: Climate tipping points

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If the climate crosses any of a number of tipping points, what are the implications for climate finance? Tipping points are large, probably irreversib...

S7 Ep28: Collaboration after #MeToo

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The #MeToo movement inspired many professions, and the men who work in those professions, to reflect on whether female colleagues were treated fairly....

S7 Ep27: Mafias and firms

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Which firms are infiltrated by organised crime, and why? We know that organised crime has links to some firms in the legal economy. But how big is thi...

S7 Ep26: Economic decline and the rise of populism

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Next week, there will be EU elections across Europe. Later this year, there is a closely fought election in the US. As traditional political right-lef...

S7 Ep25: The stigma of depression

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are increasingly aware of the number of people who secretly suffer from depression. Many sufferers are reluctant to seek help because they fear tha...

S7 Ep24: How fake news shapes the business cycle

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fake news threatens our electoral process and our social structure. Fabrice Collard tells Tim Phillips that it threatens economic stability too, and t...

S7 Ep23: What should business schools teach about the climate crisis?

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If economics and finance are the key to creating a sustainable way to live, what is the role of business schools in training the people who will make ...

S7 Ep22: Europe’s economic security

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Where is Europe’s economy vulnerable, and how can it manage that risk? A new joint report from CEPR and Bruegel investigates the challenges to econo...

S7 Ep21: Clearing the path to growth

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a conflict ends, we know how minefields continue to destroy the lives of innocent people. But is there an economic, as well as a humanitarian, be...

S7 Ep20: How quickly should we adopt AI?

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2023, many experts supported an open letter that called for a six-month pause in giant AI experiments, and that development of these AIs shou...

S7 Ep19: Which jobs will AI replace?

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at the Spring 2024 Economic Policy Panel Meeting.  What will be the impact of AI on the labour market? Two new papers use the evidence from...

S7 Ep18: Monetary policy, mortgages, and the housing market

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s World Economic Outlook report from the IMF features an intriguing piece of research that shows how rising policy rates bit harder in som...

S7 Ep17: The long shadow of the Spanish Civil War

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Spanish Civil War that ended in 1939 was brutal and destructive. But does it still affect how Spanish people think and behave today, three generat...

S7 Ep16: Monetary policy responses to inflation

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do we learn from the way central banks around the world responded to post-pandemic inflation? A new ebook from CEPR Press collects contributions ...

S7 Ep15: Mispriced risk and the end of ESG

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are markets acting efficiently when they price carbon risk? Alex Edmans talks to Alissa Kleinnijenhuis and Tim Phillips about how the earnings announc...

S7 Ep14: Disasters and bank financing

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether they war, disease or natural disasters, banks need to prepare for, and cope with, unexpected events. The third LTI report is published on 18 M...

S7 Ep13: Pandemic, war and debt

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Covid-19 and the war on Ukraine have challenged debt sustainability. Can our existing institutions meet that challenge? Following the release of the C...

S7 Ep12: Women are from Mars too

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are men from Mars, and women from Venus? If so, policies that seek to close the gender gap by equalising opportunities are unlikely to succeed. A rece...

S7 Ep11: Weder di Mauro: What went wrong at Credit Suisse

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is 12 months since the sudden downfall of Credit Suisse, one of a tiny number of Too Big to Fail global banks. Beatrice Weder di Mauro was one of a...

S7 Ep10: The euro at 25

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On 1 Jan 1999, the euro launched. In the 25 years that followed, despite several moments when it seemed the entire project might implode, it has prove...

S7 Ep9: Can parents teach patience?

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You want your children to be patient, work hard, and be able to save for the future. But can children learn these traits from their parents? Daniela D...

S7 Ep7: Climate finance instruments

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Frédéric Samama has pioneered the development and introduction of instruments that make climate finance not only possible, but practical. He tells A...

S7 Ep8: Main Street’s pain, Wall Street’s gain

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During Covid, America waited every Thursday for the release of the Initial Jobless Claims numbers at 8.30am. What happened next? Nancy Xu tells Tim Ph...

S7 Ep6: The impact of mandatory profit sharing

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at the CEPR Paris symposium 2023: In France, a law that compels many firms to share profits with their employees. Which employees end up earn...

S7 Ep5: Microdata in Europe

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at CEPR Paris Symposium 2023: data that's collected at the level of a household, a firm, or even an individual is extraordinarily valuable fo...

S7 Ep4: The seeds of knowledge

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at CEPR Paris Symposium 2023: Can we make a link between pre-modern scholars and GDP – and, if so, what is that link? David de la Croix has...

S7 Ep3: Young economists: Paris 2023

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at CEPR Paris Symposium 2023: Tim Phillips meets three of the young researchers who were chosen to present. Margot Belguise, Arnaud Dyevre an...

S7 Ep2: Solving the wickedest problem

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the brief history of climate finance, Andrew Karolyi has been one of the pioneers, both as an author and a catalyst to encourage other finance expe...

S7 Ep1: The global transmission of Fed rate hikes

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at CEPR Paris Symposium 2023: The Fed has been rapidly raising rates recently. In the recent past this would have caused a red alert in the c...

S6 Ep57: The impact of refugees on community health

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Africa’s refugees often live in large, permanent camps. While the arrival of refugees is often an economic boost for the region, it is also bad for ...

S6 Ep56: A new programme area: Climate change and the environment

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

COP28 has just concluded. Every COP demonstrates both the urgent need to devise policies that will shape the future of our planet and the people who i...

S6 Ep55: Navigating city transport policy

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When city dwellers travel, they worry about problems like about traffic jams, congestion charges, and the time spent waiting for public transport. Nic...

S6 Ep54: The art of gerrymandering

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the US, redistricting is done by the party in power. If you wanted to maximise the advantage to your side, how would you do it? And is that happeni...

S6 Ep53: What is the purpose of a company?

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1970 Milton Friedman told us that “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its profits.” Faced with climate change, is that still ...

S6 Ep52: Making banking safe

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our financial system is supposed to be more resilient than before the global financial crisis, but that didn’t save Silicon Valley Bank, Signature B...

S6 Ep51: Later-life mortality and the repeal of prohibition

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1930s we didn’t know that drinking alcohol during pregnancy could affect the health of a baby. David Jacks of the National University of Sing...

S6 Ep50: Violence against women in politics

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s polarised atmosphere, violent attacks on politicians are not unusual, and women are more likely to be the victims. Are they victimised be...

S6 Ep49: Is there a market for biodiversity?

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change will have an impact on the natural environment, and the natural environment will affect the rate of climate change. Is biodiversity ris...

S6 Ep48: AI’s impact on jobs

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

By automating non-routine tasks, AI may have a profound effect on the jobs we do, and even whether those jobs exist. How much should we fear, and how ...

S6 Ep47: Will deglobalisation lead to a new Cold War?

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the narrative was that we were at “the end of history”. Now we have changed our minds: globalization is in retrea...

S6 Ep46: Whither climate finance?

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New series: climate finance is an essential part of the fight against climate change. Join co-hosts Alissa Kleinnijenhuis and Tim Phillips for the imp...

S6 Ep45: Does anger drive populism?

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On social media and in interviews, voters and their representatives sometimes seem full of rage. Is the current rise in populism driven by this anger,...

S6 Ep44: How the US solved its Korean EV trade crisis

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provided $350 billion in tax credits and other incentives for clean energy technologies in the US. So how did Amer...

S6 Ep43: War and science in Ukraine

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists are affected by war, like anyone else. Their work is disrupted, they are placed in danger, they may become refugees or casualties. What has...

S6 Ep42: The slowdown in potential growth

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Estimates of potential growth – the best an economy can do – drive development and poverty reduction. Lower potential is a problem that constrains...

S6 Ep41: Identity politics and polarisation

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What part does group identity play in who we choose to vote for? In every democracy it seems as if our leaders are using identity politics to gain new...

S6 Ep40: Price and prejudice: Asylum seekers and housing rents

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Opposition to asylum seekers has become a political and social media hot button issue in every high-income country. But does their presence also depre...

S6 Ep39: How railways brought inventors together

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When suddenly it became quicker and cheaper to travel by train, did this help inventors to work together, and did it mean more and better innovation? ...

S6 Ep38: Has broadband internet democratised finance?

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Online share trading makes it possible for all of us to diversify our investments, but social media might encourage us to pile into bad investments. H...

S6 Ep37: Should history change the way we think about populism?

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The way that social scientists define populism might lead them to simplistic conclusions that aren’t supported by the historical record. Kevin O’R...

S6 Ep36: Democracy and political participation in India

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When India’s post-colonial constitution gave everyone the right to vote, who used that right? And what effects did this reform have on other aspects...

S6 Ep35: Does regional identity guide investment?

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Investors do more business than we would expect close to home. Can Germany’s car licence plates explain what drives local bias in investment? Thilo ...

S6 Ep34: Health and income risks in old age

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are living longer, and so studying the consequences of changes to our income and health after we stop working is becoming more important. Jeanne Co...

S6 Ep33: Improving mental health as a route out of poverty

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. One route out of poverty is to change external conditions: provide assets, jobs, heal...

S6 Ep32: Adam: How inflation distorts relative prices

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. We all learn that high inflation creates price distortions. But it has be...

S6 Ep31: Political inequality

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. Does economic inequality create political inequality? Julia Cagé tells T...

S6 Ep30: Closing the Gender gap in healthcare

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. India is still one of the five worst countries in the world for the healt...

S6 Ep29: The next generation of research

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics, Tim Phillips meets three of the young researchers who were chosen to present to the c...

S6 Ep28: Aghion: Is green growth possible?

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is innovation our best hope for dealing with climate change and, if so, how can we stimulate the sort of innovation that we need to make the green ene...

S6 Ep27: Johnson and Bozio: Can research influence policy?

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. The IFS in the UK and the IPP in France combine rigorous research with a commitment t...

S6 Ep26: Blanchard: What caused US inflation?

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. What caused inflation in the US, where will it settle, and how much unemployment will...

S6 Ep25: Duflo: Development in the 21st century

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of a series of podcasts recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics, Esther Duflo talks to Tim Phillips about ...

S6 Ep24: Do economists slow down as they age?

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is economics a young person’s game? Great mathematicians tend to peak early, but not great artists – so which category does a professor of economi...

S6 Ep23: Immigration and public goods

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voters fret that immigration overcrowds local schools, overwhelms hospitals, and that they will have to pay higher taxes as a result. Are those fears ...

S6 Ep22: The impact of trade sanctions

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do Europe’s trade sanctions hurt Russia, or do they hurt European firms more? Gauging the impact of sanctions isn’t easy or reliable, but Jean Imb...

S6 Ep21: How male and female economists collaborate

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When there are more women in the workplace, that means either more gender diverse teams, or more collaboration between women. There are more female ec...

S6 Ep20: Power and progress

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Digital technology, and AI in particular, is getting a lot of hype at the moment. Daron Acemoglu thinks that unchecked techno-optimism is concentratin...

S6 Ep19: Implementing central bank policy in China

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do China’s government-owned commercial banks respond to informal guidance from The People’s Bank of China? Their reaction to recent guidance d...

S6 Ep18: How much inflation did Covid fiscal support cause?

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020 finance ministers threw their fiscal policy plans into the bin and did everything they could to protect and stimulate Covid-hit economies. How...

S6 Ep17: American precious metals and the rise of the West

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, at least 180,000 tons of silver and around 4,000 tons of gold were extracted from the Americas and transported to...

S6 Ep16: Does politics sell newspapers?

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the political debate hots up in the world’s largest democracy, is this good for newspaper circulation? Guilhem Cassan talks to Tim Phillips abo...

S6 Ep15: A troublesome transition

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emerging economies need to undergo a green energy metamorphosis, which for many of them has only just started. But can they transform without creating...

S6 Ep14: How should we measure expected inflation?

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is more than one way to measure expected inflation. But which methods are most reliable, and how well did they predict the upward trend in Europ...

S6 Ep13: Corporate taxation and carbon emissions

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How does the rate of tax that firms pay relate to their carbon emissions? If firms that pay less emit more, then taxation may be delivering a subsidy ...

S6 Ep12: What’s missing from climate risk stress tests

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stress testing can potentially capture the impact of climate change on the health of the financial system. But Dirk Schoenmaker tells Tim Phillips tha...

S6 Ep11: Hobbesian wars and the separation of powers

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in the 17th century, he argued that the state has absolute authority over its citizens. The principal that the ...

S6 Ep10: Larry Summers on the global economy

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bonus episode: At the American Economic Association’s annual meeting 2023 in New Orleans, CEPR got the chance to ask Larry Summers three big questio...

S6 Ep9: Building a resilient vaccine supply chain

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What have we learned about how to create, manufacture, and distribute a new vaccine? Can countries cooperate to create a responsive and resilient supp...

S6 Ep8: Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every CEO, investor, and NGO needs an ESG strategy, and they need it now.  But is that urgency making smart people ignore established insights from d...

S6 Ep7: AI is reshaping economic research

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve reached a moment at which large language models like ChatGPT have clearly become useful, but for what exactly? Anton Korinek has discovered at...

S6 Ep6: Powerful forces are reshaping global trade

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Firms have discovered that global value chains are not as resilient as we assumed. They are reorganising these value chains and re-evaluating their ap...

S6 Ep5: Fair pay for CEOs!

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What motivates CEOs? Do they want to be fabulously rich or are they looking for a fair reward for their achievements? And, if fairness really does mat...

S6 Ep4: Do cultural stereotypes influence bank investment?

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We know that national stereotypes influence all sorts of personal decisions, but could they determine whether one country’s banks hold another count...

S6 Ep3: Rebuilding Ukraine’s labour market

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Russia’s war on Ukraine hasn’t just destroyed buildings and lives, it has put thousands of people out of work and denied thousands more an educati...

S6 Ep2: Slavery and the industrial revolution

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did slaveholding accelerate the industrial revolution in Britain? This controversial theory was first argued by Eric Williams almost 80 years ago but ...

S6 Ep1: Who pays for your credit card rewards?

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Credit cards that offer cashback or rewards are increasingly popular. Are you doing better or worse as a result? And how big is the financial differen...