S5 Ep39: The political economy of lockdown
During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries with free media m...
12 Aug 202220min
S5 Ep38: Divest or engage?
When pension giant ABP faced protests about its fossil fuel investment strategy, did it choose to exert pressure on oil companies or divest from them? Jeff Wurgler and Dirk Schoenmaker talk to Tim Phi...
3 Aug 202222min
S5 Ep37: Yellow vests and carbon taxes
Opposition to a carbon tax was at the root of the gilets jaunes protests in France. Did the protestors think the tax wouldn’t work, or that it wasn’t fair, or that they would personally lose out? Adri...
29 Jul 202212min
S5 Ep36: Distracted donors and political violence
When aid donors are distracted by domestic concerns, do aid recipients take advantage to suppress political opposition? Data from Africa suggest that they do, Dominic Rohner tells Tim Phillips. Photo:...
27 Jul 202213min
S5 Ep35: The global real interest rate
Global real rates are stuck at a low level, and until recently policy rates everywhere were effectively zero. Can we use historical data to explain why this happened, and to predict whether we will be...
20 Jul 202223min
S5 Ep34: Covid-19’s impact on innovation
The Covid crisis inspired extraordinary innovation. Carsten Fink and Reinhilde Veugelers are two of the editors of a new ebook from CEPR called Resilience and Ingenuity that examines how countries, or...
15 Jul 202215min
S5 Ep33: Causes and costs of populism
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Across Europe and beyond, populist movements have recently flourished. What does history teach us about the economic impact of populism – and is our taste f...
13 Jul 202214min
S5 Ep32: Levelling up Europe’s left-behind places
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: In his resignation speech this week, Boris Johnson said that "we need to keep levelling up, to keep unleashing the potential of every part of the United Kin...
8 Jul 202219min
