S6 Ep12: What’s missing from climate risk stress tests
Stress testing can potentially capture the impact of climate change on the health of the financial system. But Dirk Schoenmaker tells Tim Phillips that, in their current form, these exercises underest...
6 Apr 202317min
S6 Ep11: Hobbesian wars and the separation of powers
When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in the 17th century, he argued that the state has absolute authority over its citizens. The principal that the state’s monopoly of institutionalised violence kee...
31 Mar 202318min
S6 Ep10: Larry Summers on the global economy
Bonus episode: At the American Economic Association’s annual meeting 2023 in New Orleans, CEPR got the chance to ask Larry Summers three big questions about the global economy in 2023 and beyond.
29 Mar 20235min
S6 Ep9: Building a resilient vaccine supply chain
What have we learned about how to create, manufacture, and distribute a new vaccine? Can countries cooperate to create a responsive and resilient supply chain if history repeats itself, and should the...
24 Mar 202328min
S6 Ep8: Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG
Every CEO, investor, and NGO needs an ESG strategy, and they need it now. But is that urgency making smart people ignore established insights from decades of economic research? Alex Edmans has identi...
17 Mar 202323min
S6 Ep7: AI is reshaping economic research
We’ve reached a moment at which large language models like ChatGPT have clearly become useful, but for what exactly? Anton Korinek has discovered at least 25 ways in which economics researchers can us...
10 Mar 202330min
S6 Ep6: Powerful forces are reshaping global trade
Firms have discovered that global value chains are not as resilient as we assumed. They are reorganising these value chains and re-evaluating their approach to globalisation – but are the solutions th...
3 Mar 202315min
S6 Ep5: Fair pay for CEOs!
What motivates CEOs? Do they want to be fabulously rich or are they looking for a fair reward for their achievements? And, if fairness really does matter to them, how do you structure their contracts?...
24 Feb 202321min
