S8 Ep44: In coin we trust
On 4 August, Paul Atkins, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, launched “Project Crypto”. The SEC wants to make the US “the crypto capital of the world”. Crypto investors make a lot...
22 Aug 202527min
S8 Ep43: Strategic cops and robbers
How do criminals choose the weapons they carry, the number of accomplices, the types of business they target? Economists have long argued that decisions to commit economic crimes are strategic, based ...
15 Aug 202522min
S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. The gender wage gap in advanced economies isn’t shrinking. What can firms do to eliminate the part of the wage gap that comes from discrimination? Th...
8 Aug 202518min
S8 Ep41: Bertrand: Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. One of the mysteries for economists and policymakers has been the reluctance of men to take paternity leave, no matter how generous the terms offered...
6 Aug 202515min
S8 Ep40: Petrongolo: Gender and the labour market
From our series recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. How much progress have we made in finding out the source of gender inequality at work? At the Forum, Barbara Petrongolo of the Univers...
1 Aug 202525min
S8 Ep39: The next generation: PSE ’25
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. This week, we interview three of the next generation of economists. At the forum, a group of young researchers were presenting their work in the main...
25 Jul 202533min
S8 Ep38: The state of globalisation
Are global economic flows collapsing, or are they reorganising? That’s one of the intriguing questions asked by a new CEPR publication called The State of Globalisation. It brings together a series of...
23 Jul 202529min
S8 Ep37: The effect of working from home on house prices
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. Now that many of us work part or all our week at home, does that mean we want to move to a different area, or a larger house? And what is the effect ...
18 Jul 202520min
