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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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16:38

S5 Ep10: Raising the pressure on Putin

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/03/05

Which economic sanctions against Russia are lawful, which are politically feasible, and which will bite? Luis Garicano - economist and MEP - describes what has been done so far and what more can be done.

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15:25

S5 Ep9: The lockdown supply shock

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/03/04

China's Covid lockdown in early 2020 shocked the business world. How did this surprise disruption affect the firms that rely on imported Chinese products? Isabelle Mejean tells Tim Phillips about the economic impact in France, and which firms were most resilient.

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12:13

S5 Ep8: A positive inflation target for the euro area

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/02/25

Inflation reduces economic welfare by distorting demand. But what is the inflation rate that minimises these distortions? Maybe it's a lot higher than our models assume, Klaus Adam tells Tim Phillips.

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16:11

S5 Ep7: Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/02/18

A recent experiment in Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine attempted to overcome deep-seated prejudice against the LGBT community using information. Ralph De Haas and Cevat Aksoy of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development tell Tim Phillips about which messages cut through, and what impact can they have in the face of religious and state hostility.

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12:54

S5 Ep6: A French revolution in state-building

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/02/11

One of the most remarkable achievements of the French Revolution for ordinary people was the reorganisation of local government. Cédric Chambru, Emeric Henry and Benjamin Marx tell Tim Phillips how local state capitals emerged as a result, and what this tells us about how state capacity develops.

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19:17

S5 Ep5: Macro-financial policies in an international...

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/02/04

Since the GFC the UK has used innovative macroprudential and monetary policy tools to maintain stability. But the UK is an international financial centre, and so does this policy framework create spillovers in other places, and do influences from elsewhere affect stability in the UK? Yes and yes, says Thorsten Beck.

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15:17

S5 Ep4: Managing risk in global supply chains

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/01/28

Covid-19 demonstrated that modern global supply chains do not guarantee food in supermarkets or PPE in hospitals. Richard Baldwin tells Tim Phillips how risky these supply chains really are, and what we could do to shore them up.

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14:17

S5 Ep3: The other great migration

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/01/21

In the 20th century at least 6 million African Americans migrated from poor southern states to northern cities to escape discrimination and poverty, changing the course of American history. At least as many whites also migrated, taking their ideas with them. Samuel Bazzi tells Tim Phillips that they have also influenced social structures and politics in the US.

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38:07

S5 Ep2: AI: software for autocrats?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/01/14

The Chinese government isn't just a world leader in the use of AI for facial recognition, its orders are funding innovation in its domestic industry too. But what's good news for entrepreneurs may be bad news for political protest, Noam Yuchtman tells Tim Phillips.

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18:58

S5 Ep1: The gender gap: Nature or nurture?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/01/07

Are the differences between what men and women like decided at birth, or do we learn to prefer different things? Klaus Desmet tells Tim Phillips about new research that investigates global patterns in 45,397 Facebook interests.

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15:40

S4 Ep51: Europe's asylum lottery

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/12/17

Refugees from conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and many other countries travel thousands of miles seeking a new life in Europe. But how likely are these refugees to be recognised as asylum seekers, and does it matter in which country they apply? Tim Hatton tells Tim Phillips that, despite efforts to standardise the process of granting asylum, there are still big differences in recognition rates across Europe.

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18:18

S4 Ep50: Germany's stalled social mobility

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/12/10

New research uses German census data to track the association between success for a child and the earnings of the parent at a much higher level of detail than was previously possible. Sebastian Findeisen and Paul Schüle tell Tim Phillips about the impact of investment in education that was intended to improve social mobility.

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27:53

S4 Ep49: Why natural experiments won the Nobel

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/12/03

Josh Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens shared the Nobel in 2021 for their pioneering work on natural experiments that, in the words of the committee, "revolutionised empirical research". Steve Pischke tells Tim Phillips about the history of natural experiments, and the impact of the methods pioneered by this year's Laureates. © Nobel Prize Outreach 2021 Ill. Niklas Elmehed

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S4 Ep48: Coming out in America

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/11/26

Two new papers pinpoint the election of 1992 as a turning point in the attitudes of Americans to same-sex relationships, and ask, what has caused this change? Raquel Fernandez and Sahar Parsa of NYU tell Tim Phillips about the complex relationship between political and social attitudes.

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16:24

S4 Ep47: Pensions and fertility in Namibia

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/11/19

Do we have children to provide for us in our old age? Pauline Rossi tells Tim Phillips about the impact on the size of families in Namibia after the government granted a state pension – research that might have important implications for economic development in Africa. Picture credit: paolafrog@flickr

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18:20

S4 Ep46: Tournaments: Playing to win

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/11/12

Tournaments are increasingly being used in business to solve non-routine problems. Florian Englmaier tells Tim Phillips about new research into what gives these teams the will to win. Do they respond to having a common sense of identity, do they want kudos and status from other people, or are they just looking for a cash prize?

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12:09

S4 Ep45: Creating a resilient society

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/11/05

Repeated environmental and economic crises in recent years are encouraging many people to ask, is this really the best way to run a planet? Markus Brunnermeier tells Tim Phillips how we can do a better job of coping with shocks.

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21:42

S4 Ep44: How crises rewire our brains

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/10/29

When we live through a financial crisis, many of us think differently about money afterwards. Neuroscientists can show that the experience changes the physical structure of our brains, and Ulrike Malmendier tells Tim Phillips how this should also change the way that economists think about preferences for risk.

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16:53

S4 Ep43: Pension reform and the incentive to work

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/10/22

As life expectancy increases, so does the importance of a fair pension system that reflects our contribution but won't leave anyone in poverty. Can we create a progressive pension system that doesn't discourage work? Fabian Kindermann tells Tim Phillips how it could be designed.

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16:54

S4 Ep42: Rethinking financial globalisation

VoxTalks Economics ·

2021/10/15

Even after their role in the global financial crisis, globalised, minimally regulated financial markets are still regarded as inevitable and, on balance, good for us. Maurice Obstfeld of Berkeley tells Tim Phillips about the short but action-packed history of financial globalisation and asks whether we should be rethinking this aspect of capitalism too.

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