S5 Ep22: What is the purpose of a finance professor?
Alex Edmans asked this question in his keynote at the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting and offered some provocative answers. He tells Tim Phillips about passion, luck, originality, and ...
27 Touko 202220min
S5 Ep21: The food crisis has no respect for borders
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...
20 Touko 202216min
S5 Ep20: What can helicopter money do?
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....
13 Touko 202223min
S5 Ep19: Helping fathers to acknowledge paternity
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? A...
6 Touko 202215min
S5 Ep18: The limits of microfinance
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 int...
29 Huhti 202210min
S5 Ep17: Inequality and creative destruction
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 bala...
22 Huhti 202219min
S5 Ep16: How Fox News inspired vaccine hesitancy
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 r...
15 Huhti 202211min
S5 Ep15: Forced displacement, then and now
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 discoveri...
7 Huhti 202222min
