S5 Ep9: The lockdown supply shock
China's Covid lockdown in early 2020 shocked the business world. How did this surprise disruption affect the firms that rely on imported Chinese products? Isabelle Mejean tells Tim Phillips about the ...
4 Mar 202215min
S5 Ep8: A positive inflation target for the euro area
Inflation reduces economic welfare by distorting demand. But what is the inflation rate that minimises these distortions? Maybe it's a lot higher than our models assume, Klaus Adam tells Tim Phillips.
25 Feb 202212min
S5 Ep7: Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies
A recent experiment in Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine attempted to overcome deep-seated prejudice against the LGBT community using information. Ralph De Haas and Cevat Aksoy of the European Bank for Recon...
18 Feb 202216min
S5 Ep6: A French revolution in state-building
One of the most remarkable achievements of the French Revolution for ordinary people was the reorganisation of local government. Cédric Chambru, Emeric Henry and Benjamin Marx tell Tim Phillips how lo...
11 Feb 202212min
S5 Ep5: Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre
Since the GFC the UK has used innovative macroprudential and monetary policy tools to maintain stability. But the UK is an international financial centre, and so does this policy framework create spil...
4 Feb 202219min
S5 Ep4: Managing risk in global supply chains
Covid-19 demonstrated that modern global supply chains do not guarantee food in supermarkets or PPE in hospitals. Richard Baldwin tells Tim Phillips how risky these supply chains really are, and what ...
28 Jan 202215min
S5 Ep3: The other great migration
In the 20th century at least 6 million African Americans migrated from poor southern states to northern cities to escape discrimination and poverty, changing the course of American history. At least a...
21 Jan 202214min
S5 Ep2: AI: software for autocrats?
The Chinese government isn't just a world leader in the use of AI for facial recognition, its orders are funding innovation in its domestic industry too. But what's good news for entrepreneurs may be ...
14 Jan 202238min
