S5 Ep50: How does trade policy affect competition?
How does a bilateral trade agreement affect the amount of competition in both countries? New data casts doubt on the conclusions that trade economists have drawn in the past, Meredith Crowley tells Ti...
11 Nov 202221min
S5 Ep49: How did inflation get so high?
Ricardo Reis tells Tim Phillips why many advanced economies ended up with inflation levels that we haven’t seen for a generation. Did policymakers make mistakes, or do we need to change the entire pol...
4 Nov 202219min
S5 Ep48: Climate and debt
Mitigating and adapting to climate change is economically rational. But it is also expensive, it’s not clear how the cost should be financed, or which countries or actors assume the burden. The 25th G...
28 Okt 202223min
S5 Ep47: Slowing the spread of the next epidemic
Whether it’s a return of Covid-19 or another epidemic, we now know much more about the best policies to protect economies while limiting the spread of infection from place to place. Flavio Toxvaerd te...
21 Okt 202219min
S5 Ep46: How does climate change affect asset prices?
Heat stress from climate change affects the economy, so does it change the cost of issuing debt or the return on equities? Viral Acharya has investigated how this climate risk is priced, and he tells ...
14 Okt 202222min
S5 Ep45: How social media influences the news
We know that millions of people get their news from social media, but does Twitter influence what traditional news outlets report as well? Julia Cagé tells Tim Phillips about a new study of 2 billion ...
7 Okt 202218min
S5 Ep44: Violence against women at work
When a man is violent to a woman at work, is the outcome different compared to when a man is the victim? A new study reaches some disturbing conclusions. Abi Adams-Prassl talks to Tim Phillips.
30 Sep 202217min
S5 Ep43: The illusion of control
We need a financial system, but does that mean we must also have regular financial crises? Regulation and risk management attempt to eliminate them, but does the cost and effort simply deliver what Jo...
23 Sep 202222min
