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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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S3 Ep32: Solving Europe's productivity puzzle

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/07/10

In the recovery from Covid-19 we urgently need to boost productivity. But which policies move the needle? Filippo di Mauro tells Tim Phillips about what CompNet's firm-level productivity data tells us about both the problem and the solution. Find out more about what the data is telling us.

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15:03

S3 Ep31: Banks under pressure

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/07/08

Low profitability, non-performing loans, and competition from Big Tech. A new report from the CEPR concludes that the banking sector faces "deep restructuring". Xavier Vives tell Tim Phillips why. Read about the report and download it.

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31:16

S3 Ep30: To each according to their needs

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/07/03

Kaushik Basu's time as World Bank chief economist inspired him to think radically about how to change the way the global economy works. He tells Tim Phillips about why public ownership and profit-sharing may be essential, and what we can still learn from Karl Marx.

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15:49

S3 Ep29: Coping with Covid in developing economies

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/06/26

A new ebook from the CEPR and the International Development Policy Journal discusses the threat to developing and emerging economies from the pandemic, and what we can do about it. Ugo Panizza is one of the editors, and he joins Tim Phillips to discuss capital flight, conflict, and what advanced economies and can do to help. Download Covid in Developing Economies - it's free.

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14:21

S3 Ep28: Who gets exposed to Covid-19?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/06/19

Different countries and cities have different rates of Covid exposure, but what can explain the difference in incidence between neighbourhoods? New York residents Milena Almagro and Angelo Orane-Hutchinson tell Tim Phillips what made the difference in their city. Read their research in Covid Economics 13.

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24:30

S3 Ep27: The Great Reversal

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/06/12

Thomas Philippon's new book argues that in the last 20 years the US has “given up” on free markets. As a result, he tells Tim Phillips, American families are each $5,000 a year poorer.

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14:36

S3 Ep26: Structural transformation and economic growth

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/06/03

This week the CEPR launches a new research programme called STEG - Structural Transformation and Economic Growth. Ahead of the kick-off workshop on June 4 and 5, Joe Kaboski and Doug Gollin tell Tim Phillips what STEG hopes to achieve, and Rachel Glennerster explains why DFID is funding it. Register for the workshop or discover STEG here.

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19:34

S3 Ep25: Time for beds

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/05/29

The mortality statistics of the Covid-19 outbreak suggest that your country's medical infrastructure has a big influence on how likely you are to survive. Nathan Sussman has examined the data and tells Tim Phillips why all countries should be urgently investing in their health services. Read "Time for Beds" in issue 11 of Covid Economics.

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16:36

S3 Ep24: Tech industry mergers

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/05/22

Should competition authorities intervene more often in tech mergers? Be careful, Luis Cabral tells Tim Phillips: they risk stifling innovation if they do.

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12:24

S3 Ep23: Helicopter money

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/05/18

In every crisis, economists will tell us that it is time for helicopter money, and Covid-19 is no different. But the helicopters never seem to take off. Donato Maschiandaro tells Tim Phillips why not. Read about helicopter money in Issue 7 of Covid Economics.

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17:27

S3 Ep22: The Swedish solution to Covid-19

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/05/15

Do we close our public spaces to protect our communities from Covid-19, or keep them open, as in Sweden? Dirk Krueger tells Tim Phillips that informing the public and then trusting individuals to make good choices might deliver a decline in infections, while minimising the Covid recession. Download Covid Economics 5, including Dirk's paper. Picture: Creative Commons/Vogler

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17:53

S3 Ep21: The myth of British inventive genius

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/05/08

On the 75 anniversary of the VE Day, David Edgerton tells Tim Phillips that Britain's belief in its go-it-alone scientific and inventive genius is “deluded”, and has stunted the nation's postwar growth. Download The Economics of the Second World War Seventy-Five Years On, featuring David's chapter.

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15:26

S3 Ep20: Do the rich get more coronavirus tests?

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/04/29

Last month the media accused New York's wealthy residents of jumping the queue for Covid-19 testing. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, a New York resident herself, ran the numbers. She tells Tim Phillips what she discovered.

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22:22

S3 Ep19: We need a Covid-19 debt standstill

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/04/27

In a new paper called Born out of necessity, a group of economists and lawyers propose a way for developing and emerging countries to temporarily redirect debt repayments to fund Covid-19 relief. Ugo Panizza and Mitu Gulati tell Tim Phillips how it would work. Read about this controversial idea at VoxEU.

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16:52

S3 Ep18: John Maynard Keynes's art portfolio

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/04/21

Keynes amassed an extensive collection of fine art during his lifetime. David Chambers tells Tim Phillips what the financial returns on his investment have been, and the insight this gives us into how to value an art portfolio as an asset.

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12:23

S3 Ep17: Lessons from the Ebola crisis on dealing...

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/04/09

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone affected an area which included a pioneering experiment in community healthcare. Oeindrila Dube tells Tim Phillips about the lifesaving impact of this experiment - and two important lessons we can learn that may help to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Africa.

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S3 Ep16: Modelling the economic consequences of Covid-19

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/04/07

When Covid-19 wasn't even on the radar of most policymakers, Warwick McKibbin of ANU used his experience from previous pandemics to create seven scenarios for its impact. All implied a major shock to the global economy. Tim Phillips asks him how his model was able to capture the nature of Covid-19, and which policymakers listened to the warning. Read about McKibbin's scenarios in Chapter 3 of Economics in the Time of Covid-19.

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11:12

S3 Ep15: How much do governments lend to each other...

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/03/27

In international crises, disasters and wars, private lenders disappear. But governments have stepped in and lent far more to each other than we previously thought. Christoph Trebesch tells Tim Phillips that new data on 200 years of official lending may contain unexpected good news for countries crippled by Covid-19. Read 'Coping with disasters: Lessons from two centuries of international response' at VoxEU

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20:41

S3 Ep14: The coronavirus shock to financial stability

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/03/25

Enrico Perotti tells Tim Phillips that while regulatory reform means that banks are unlikely to be at risk, the same is not true for the shadow banking sector. Does this threaten financial stability, and what should policymakers do about it?

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11:13

S3 Ep13: A Covid credit line for Europe

VoxTalks Economics ·

2020/03/23

How can euro area countries work together to protect their economies? A diverse group of economists has suggested the creation of an emergency Covid credit line. Beatrice Weder di Mauro tells Tim Phillips how it would work. Read about the Covid credit line on VoxEU

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