S4 Ep19: Are socially responsible banks more resilient?
ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – measures of bank performance are getting a lot of attention from shareholders and policymakers. But might more investment in ESG make banks less resilient?...
21 Mai 202120min
S4 Ep18: Parental age and child health
As more of us wait to have children, more of us also worry if that's best for the health of our babies. Empirical evidence has been inconclusive so far but, based on new evidence, Hans Hvide tells Tim...
7 Mai 202114min
S4 Ep17: Making sense of the US-China trade war
If you had trouble in the last four years keeping up with what was happening in the trade war, you're not alone. Chad Bown tell Tim Phillips about his new paper that explains what happened, when, what...
30 Apr 202118min
S4 Ep16: The problems of digital trade
An increasing amount of trade is digital, but trade negotiations are bogged down by arguments over how to regulate it. A new VoxEU ebook investigates what gets in the way of digital trade, and editors...
27 Apr 202115min
S4 Ep15: Covid-19 is reshaping European economic policy
Europe has struggled through two crises in the last decade, but this time its response has been much more decisive and ambitious. George Papaconstantinou tells Tim Phillips why Covid-19 may be the cat...
23 Apr 202112min
S4 Ep14: Discovering history's notable people
Can we create a database of everyone in history? What would it tell us about who we consider to be important? Etienne Wasmer, Morgane Laouenan, and Arash Nekoei tell Tim Phillips about what their proj...
16 Apr 202121min
S4 Ep13: Inequality beyond GDP
We measure inequality using income as a proxy for welfare. But are we mixing up "doing well" with "being well"? Leandro Prados de la Escosura thinks so, and his research contradicts much of what we th...
2 Apr 202121min
S4 Ep12: What if bitcoin succeeds?
What would our economies be like if Bitcoin completely displaced fiat currency? Jon Danielsson tells Tim Phillips that it wouldn't be a world that he wants to live in.
26 Mar 202114min
