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VoxTalks Economics

Learn about groundbreaking new research, commentary and policy ideas from the world"s leading economists. Presented by Tim Phillips.

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14:38

S6 Ep3: Rebuilding Ukraine’s labour market

VoxTalks Economics ·

2023/02/10

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 education. After the war, how can Ukraine rebuild its labour market? Tito Boeri tells Tim Phillips about how other countries and Ukrainian refugees can help to build back better.

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27:28

S6 Ep2: Slavery and the industrial revolution

VoxTalks Economics ·

2023/02/03

Did slaveholding accelerate the industrial revolution in Britain? This controversial theory was first argued by Eric Williams almost 80 years ago but has lacked strong supporting evidence – until now. Stephan Heblich and Joachim Voth talk to Tim Phillips.

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29:04

S6 Ep1: Who pays for your credit card rewards?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2023/01/20

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 difference between all the winners and losers? Andrea Presbitero knows and the amount, he tells Tim Phillips, is bigger than you think.

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13:53

S5 Ep54: Understanding US inflation

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/12/09

Can we explain what happened to inflation in the US in 2022, and what will happen next? Larry Ball and Daniel Leigh tell Tim Phillips why it stayed high and when it may fall.

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17:08

S5 Ep53: Do content moderation laws work?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/12/02

Germany’s NetzDG Law has given social media companies the responsibility for removing toxic content from their platforms. Can a law to mandate content moderation curb hate speech and, if it does, does that have an impact in the offline world? Carlo Schwarz talks to Tim Phillips.

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15:21

S5 Ep52: How empires rise, and how they fall

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/11/25

In the industrial age many new empires quickly rose and eventually fell. Kerem Cosar and Roberto Bonfatti tell Tim Phillips how important shifting patterns of trade have been in this process.

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28:14

S5 Ep51: The great carbon arbitrage

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/11/18

What is the net benefit of phasing out coal and replacing it with renewables? $85 trillion, according to a new calculation. Alissa Kleinnijenhuis and Patrick Bolton tell Tim Phillips how they estimated this extraordinary number, how the benefit can be realised – and whether the negotiations at COP27 will get us there.

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21:10

S5 Ep50: How does trade policy affect competition?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/11/11

How does a bilateral trade agreement affect the amount of competition in both countries? New data casts doubt on the conclusions that trade economists have drawn in the past, Meredith Crowley tells Tim Phillips.

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19:16

S5 Ep49: How did inflation get so high?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/11/04

Ricardo Reis tells Tim Phillips why many advanced economies ended up with inflation levels that we haven’t seen for a generation. Did policymakers make mistakes, or do we need to change the entire policy framework?

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23:18

S5 Ep48: Climate and debt

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/10/28

Mitigating and adapting to climate change is economically rational. But it is also expensive, it’s not clear how the cost should be financed, or which countries or actors assume the burden. The 25th Geneva Report from CEPR investigates these questions. Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Ugo Panizza tell Tim Phillips about the report’s conclusions.

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19:36

S5 Ep47: Slowing the spread of the next epidemic

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/10/21

Whether it’s a return of Covid-19 or another epidemic, we now know much more about the best policies to protect economies while limiting the spread of infection from place to place. Flavio Toxvaerd tells Tim Phillips about new research on what will work next time.

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22:27

S5 Ep46: How does climate change affect asset prices?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/10/14

Heat stress from climate change affects the economy, so does it change the cost of issuing debt or the return on equities? Viral Acharya has investigated how this climate risk is priced, and he tells Tim Phillips how it raises the cost of borrowing most for the places and firms that can least afford it.

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18:24

S5 Ep45: How social media influences the news

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/10/07

We know that millions of people get their news from social media, but does Twitter influence what traditional news outlets report as well? Julia Cagé tells Tim Phillips about a new study of 2 billion tweets.

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17:20

S5 Ep44: Violence against women at work

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/09/30

When a man is violent to a woman at work, is the outcome different compared to when a man is the victim? A new study reaches some disturbing conclusions. Abi Adams-Prassl talks to Tim Phillips.

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22:59

S5 Ep43: The illusion of control

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/09/23

We need a financial system, but does that mean we must also have regular financial crises? Regulation and risk management attempt to eliminate them, but does the cost and effort simply deliver what Jon Danielsson, in his new book, calls The Illusion of Control? He tells Tim Phillips that systemic risk is higher now than it was in 2008.

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19:05

S5 Ep42: Does inequality create growth?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/09/16

If we are less equal, is that good or bad news for economic growth? Reto Foellmi reviewed the research, and he has some answers for Tim Phillips.

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19:21

S5 Ep41: Ghost firms and tax fraud

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/09/09

The problem of fake firms that issue fake receipts so that clients can claim fraudulent tax deductions is widespread but hard to stop, and it’s costing governments everywhere billions in lost revenues. Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz talk to Tim Phillips about how the tax authority in Ecuador recouped lost revenues.

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21:21

S5 Ep40: Our workless future

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/09/02

As intelligent autonomous machines become better at doing all our jobs, will there be enough work and income to go around? If only some of us work, who will that be, and what happens to the rest of us? Anton Korinek talks to Tim Phillips.

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20:56

S5 Ep39: The political economy of lockdown

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/08/12

During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries with free media more likely to act – and were their citizens more likely to comply? Tim Besley and Sacha Dray talk to Tim Phillips about their new research.

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22:03

S5 Ep38: Divest or engage?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/08/03

When pension giant ABP faced protests about its fossil fuel investment strategy, did it choose to exert pressure on oil companies or divest from them? Jeff Wurgler and Dirk Schoenmaker talk to Tim Phillips about how the finance sector can accelerate a green transition.

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