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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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16:00

S5 Ep21: The food crisis has no respect for borders

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/05/20

This week António Guterres, secretary-general of the UN, warned that the war in Ukraine would tip tens of millions into food insecurity. Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers tell Tim Phillips about who suffers and how much from food price inflation.

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23:05

S5 Ep20: What can helicopter money do?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/05/13

If you're going to drop lots of money from a helicopter, what will happen to the economy? When would it make a difference, and to who? Helicopter money is increasingly being taken seriously as policy. Ricardo Reis tells Tim Phillips whether helicopter money really can solve our economic problems.

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15:10

S5 Ep19: Helping fathers to acknowledge paternity

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/05/06

If fathers don't acknowledge paternity, it affects both mother and child. Should the state increase financial support for single parents, should we incentivise marriage – or is there another option? Anna Raute tells Tim Phillips that the surprising impact of an unrelated German social policy suggests there may be.

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10:18

S5 Ep18: The limits of microfinance

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/04/29

Microfinance has helped millions of the world's poor build better lives. But can it help the world's poorest people, who spend most of their lives growing food to feed their families, to diversify into other jobs? Jack Thiemel tells Tim Phillips about the impact of one of these projects, and what it tells us about the best ways to help the ultra-poor.

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19:30

S5 Ep17: Inequality and creative destruction

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/04/22

Governments are desperate to create innovation hubs or attract tech companies to kickstart economic growth, but that creates winners and losers. Richard Blundell tells Tim Phillips how policy can balance the impact of innovation on inequality and create policies so that creative destruction and social mobility can go hand-in-hand.

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11:37

S5 Ep16: How Fox News inspired vaccine hesitancy

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/04/15

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, some cable news hosts cast doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines. Matteo Pinna tells Tim Phillips about his research on the impact of Fox News on vaccination rates.

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22:47

S5 Ep15: Forced displacement, then and now

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/04/07

Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine: forced migration is constantly in the news, but these events have been happening for hundreds of years. Sascha Becker tells Tim Phillips about new research that is discovering the economic impact of mass displacement in history, both on refugees and on communities – and the lessons we can learn from the past.

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16:06

S5 Ep14: Motivated science and green innovation

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/04/01

Scientists create innovation. Is this because they are paid to do it, or because they care about the outcome? Tim Besley tells Tim Phillips how motivated science drives down the cost of innovation and may accelerate the green transition.

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16:44

S5 Ep13: Will Ukraine's economy survive the war?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/03/25

Are the Ukrainian economy and financial system holding up to Russia's bombardment? Yevhenii Skok tells Tim Phillips whether emergency policies have been able to maintain liquidity and financial stability, how much damage has been done to Ukraine's productive capacity, and what a post-war financial rebuild would look like.

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16:37

S5 Ep12: Do schools change our religious attitudes?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/03/18

Does compulsory religious education make us more likely to believe as adults, and does it make us more ethical? Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow, and Benjamin Arold explain to Tim Phillips what educational reform in Germany can tell us.

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11:40

S5 Ep11: Women's liberation, household revolution

VoxTalks Economics ·

2022/03/11

Until the second half of the 19th century, coverture laws granted married men almost unlimited power over the household. Moshe Hazan and David Weiss tell Tim Phillips about how abolition changed the number of children in a family, and how well those children were educated?

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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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