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| Title | Shortlink | Date | Interviewee(s) | Length | Description | Further reading | CEPR discussion paper * | CEPR programme(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitalist systems and inequality | https://voxta.lk/capineq | 29/1/21 | Branko Milanovic | 14 min | In classical capitalism, the rich earn their money from capital while the poor sell the value of their labour. Is that still true, and how does it affect the gap between rich and poor? | Capitalist systems and income inequality | Public, Development | |
| Boiling point in Africa | https://voxta.lk/Boiling | 22/1/21 | Dominic Rohner | 11 min | As the climate heats up, what does it mean for the number, and the scale, of conflicts in Africa? | DP15542 Heat and Hate | Development | |
The microeconomics of cryptocurrencies | https://voxta.lk/crypto | 15/1/21 | Neil Gandal | 20 min | What is behind the pinballing price movements of Bitcoin? | The microeconomics of cryptocurrencies | DP14972 The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies | Financial, IO |
| The refugee's dilemma | https://voxta.lk/refugees | 8/1/21 | Mathias Thoenig | 26 min | A new study uses detailed data on the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany to investigate why individuals become refugees. | How asylum policies deterred Jewish migration out of Nazi Germany | DP15533 The Refugee's Dilemma | Public, Trade/Regional, Development, History |
| How authoritarians stay in power | https://voxta.lk/authoritarians | 18/12/2020 | Konstantin Sonin | 17 mins | Among other things, it has not been a great year for global democracy. How do authoritarian leaders grab and hold on to power? | DP15344 The Political Economics of Non-democracy | Public | |
| Covid baby boom or bust? | https://voxta.lk/babyboom | 11/12/2020 | Joshua Wilde | 16 mins | Will the pandemic create more or fewer babies? Google search data can provide the answer. | Covid Economics 54 | Covid | |
| The Spanish Empire's shipwreck problem | https://voxta.lk/shipwrecks | 04/12/2020 | Fernando Arteaga, Desiree Desierto, Mark Koyama | 24 mins | When the galleon San José sank in a typhoon in 1694, it was carrying a cargo worth 2% of the GDP of the entire Spanish empire. How did bribery sink Spanish treasure ships? | Shipwrecked by rents | DP15300 Shipwrecked by Rents | Behavioral, History |
| Africa's roads make the rich richer | https://voxta.lk/africaroads | 27/11/2020 | Steven Poelhekke | 13 mins | Africa's roads were originally built so that colonial powers could extract its natural wealth. What has happened since then? | The political economy of Africa’s interior-to-coast roads | DP15354 Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads | Development, Trade/Regional |
| The secret war in Laos | https://voxta.lk/laos | 20/11/2020 | Felipe Valencia Caicedo | 18 mins | Laotians are still suffering collateral damage from a covert war that the US waged in the country half a century ago. How can we help victims of conflict in future? | Apocalypse Laos: The devastating legacy of the ‘Secret War’ | DP15349 Collateral Damage: The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos | Development, History, Growth |
| A history of public debt | https://voxta.lk/histdebt | 13/11/2020 | Eric Monnet | 22 mins | When we compare ratios of debt to GDP, do we look closely enough at the political and financial context in which the debts were calculated? | DP15347 The History and Politics of Public Debt Accounting | History | |
| Europe should throw out its fiscal rulebook | https://voxta.lk/eurules | 06/11/2020 | Olivier Blanchard | 19 mins | What if the EU's increasingly complex system of fiscal rules were replaced by a system of fiscal standards? | Redesigning the EU Fiscal Rules: From Rules to Standards | Public | |
| Gun control in Brazil | https://voxta.lk/gunbrazil | 30/10/2020 | Rodrigo Schneider | 15 mins | In 2003 Brazil enacted strict gun control legislation, with important effects on levels of crime and homicide. | Law, guns, and money in Brazil | Public | |
| The price of a vote | https://voxta.lk/pricevote | 26/10/2020 | Julia Cagé | 21 mins | How well does campaign finance work, and which political parties benefit most? | DP15150 The Heterogeneous Price of a Vote: Evidence from Multiparty Systems, 1993-2017 | History, Public | |
| Nepotism in academia | https://voxta.lk/nepotism | 23/10/2020 | David de la Croix | 12 mins | How much did nepotism in Europe's ancient universities hold back the emergence of modern science? | DP15159 Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088--1800) | History | |
| The Black Death | https://voxta.lk/blackdeath | 16/10/2020 | Mark Koyama | 21 mins | Seven hundred years ago the worst pandemic in history killed almost half the population of Europe and the Middle East, and its effects were felt for centuries. | DP15132 The Economic Impact of the Black Death | History | |
| Politics and ethnicity in Africa | https://voxta.lk/polafrica | 09/10/2020 | Valeria Rueda | 23 mins | Some ethnic groups are active in African politics, and some are not. Two socioeconomic revolutions more than a century ago shaped post-colonial political power. | DP15162 Cash Crops, Print Technologies and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa | History | |
| Should Google be allowed to acquire Fitbit? | https://voxta.lk/googlefit | 05/10/2020 | Cristina Caffarra, Greg Crawford | 33 mins | Why have 17 economists have written a paper describing the harm that Google's acquisition of Fitbit would cause to consumers? | Policy Insight 107, Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers | IO | |
| Publishing in economics | https://voxta.lk/econpub | 28/09/2020 | Sebastian Galiani, Ugo Panizza | 20 mins | Academic economists need to be published, but is the journal system fair and efficient? | Publishing and measuring success in economics | ||
| The old songs | https://voxta.lk/oldsongs | 25/09/2020 | Timothy Yeung | 10 mins | In a crisis, it seems we get all nostalgic about music. | Covid Economics 44 | Covid | |
| Post-pandemic transport policy | https://voxta.lk/postpan | 22/09/2020 | David Newbery | 12 mins | In the UK, public transport use has remained low after lockdown - but car use is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. What does this mean for a sustainable transport policy? | DP15153 Transport policy for a post-Covid UK | Public | |
| Trustworthiness in the financial sector | https://voxta.lk/fintrust | 18/09/2020 | Matthias Heinz | 11 mins | Do scandals happen in banks because they recruit people who can't be trusted? | DP15147 Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry | Financial, IO | |
| What next for the UK's furloughed workers? | https://voxta.lk/furlough | 15/09/2020 | Abi Adams-Prassl | 14 mins | Nine million workers were furloughed in the UK this summer. What was the experience like for them, and what will happen to them now? | [Transcript] | Covid, Labour | |
| Kindergartens in America | https://voxta.lk/kinder | 11/09/2020 | Philipp Ager, Francesco Cinnirella | 11 mins | At the beginning of the 20th century more than 7,000 kindergartens were set up in the US, with a profound effect on the life chances of a generation of immigrants. | DP15146 Froebel's gifts: how the kindergarten movement changed the american family | History | |
| Racism and the "China virus" | https://voxta.lk/chinavirus | 04/09/2020 | Runjing Lu | 14 mins | Many Americans blame China for Covid-19. Politicians have exploited this, leading to an increase in prejudice against the US Asian community. | Covid Economics 39 | Covid | |
| Restoring financial stability to India | https://voxta.lk/finstab | 28/08/2020 | Viral Acharya | 28 mins | India's bloated public sector is strangling growth. Now is the perfect time for institutional reform. | Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India | Financial, Development | |
| A new explanation for wage stagnation | https://voxta.lk/stagnate | 21/08/2020 | Rachel Ngai | 11 mins | Low-skilled workers are concentrated in sectors with fast productivity growth, so why isn't their pay rising? | DP14855 A Multisector Perspective on Wage Stagnation | Labour, Growth | |
| Bailing out the kids | https://voxta.lk/bailkids | 18/08/2020 | Niels Johannesen | 12 mins | How much do we bail out our families in a crisis, according to financial and administrative data? | DP14867 Bailing out the Kids: New Evidence on Informal Insurance from one Billion Bank Transfers | Public | |
| Does social media make us xenophobic? | https://voxta.lk/xenophob | 14/08/2020 | Maria Petrova | 8 mins | Xenophobic attacks are on the rise around the world. In Russia, does social media help to cause them? | DP14877 Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia | Public | |
| Europe's zombie lending | https://voxta.lk/euzombie | 07/08/2020 | Viral Acharya | 38 mins | The action to save Europe's financial sector after 2008 has delayed reform in the banking sector - creating a decade of lending to zombie firms that has stifled economic growth. | Creating Zombies and Disinflation | DP15009 Kicking the can down the road: government interventions in the European banking sector | Financial |
| Recessions increase inequality | https://voxta.lk/recequal | 31/07/2020 | Gianluca Violante | 18 mins | Most high earners bounce back from recessions. But for the last 50 years it has been a different story for low earners. | DP14870 The Rise of US Earnings Inequality: Does the Cycle Drive the Trend? | Labour, Growth | |
| Valuing digital services | https://voxta.lk/digital | 24/07/2020 | Diane Coyle, David Nguyen | 14 mins | The Covid-19 lockdown has provided the opportunity to measure the financial value we give to 'free' digital services like social media and Google search. | Covid Economics 33, The impact of Covid-19 on the value of online goods | Covid | |
| The mechanics of the industrial revolution | https://voxta.lk/mechanics | 17/07/2020 | Joel Mokyr | 19 mins | Skilled artisans were needed to build, improve and mend the machines that powered the industrial revolution. Can this help explain why the revolution happened when - and where - it did? | DP14884 The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution | History | |
| Solving Europe's productivity puzzle | https://voxta.lk/prodpuzz | 10/07/2020 | Filippo di Mauro | 25 mins | In the recovery from Covid-19 we urgently need to boost productivity. CompNet's firm-level productivity data tells us much about both the problem and the solution. | The Covid crisis and productivity gowth | Covid | |
| Banks under pressure | https://voxta.lk/bankpress | 08/07/2020 | Xavier Vives | 15 mins | Low profitability, non-performing loans, and competition from Big Tech. A new report from the CEPR concludes that the banking sector faces "deep restructuring". | The bank business mode in the post-Covid 19 world | Financial | |
| To each according to their needs | https://voxta.lk/toeach | 03/07/2020 | Kaushik Basu | 31 mins | Kaushik Basu's time as World Bank chief economist inspired him to think radically about how to change the way the global economy works. He thinks more public ownership and profit-sharing will be essential. | CEPR STEG | Development, Institutions | |
| Coping with Covid in developing economies | https://voxta.lk/coviddevt | 26/06/2020 | Ugo Panizza | 16 mins | A new ebook from the CEPR and the International Development Policy Journal discusses the threat to developing and emerging economies from the pandemic, and what we can do about it. | Covid-19 in Developing Economies | Covid, Development | |
| Who gets exposed to Covid-19? | https://voxta.lk/whogets | 19/06/2020 | Milena Almagro, Angelo Orane-Hutchinson | 14 mins | What can explain the difference in Covid incidence between neighbourhoods in New York? | Covid Economics 13 | Covid, Public | |
| The Great Reversal | https://voxta.lk/reversal | 12/06/2020 | Thomas Philippon | 25 mins | Thomas Philippon's new book argues that in the last 20 years the US has “given up” on free markets, meaning American families are each $5,000 a year poorer. | Martin Wolf's review in the FT | Innovation, Institutions | |
| Structural transformation and economic growth | https://voxta.lk/steg | 03/06/2020 | Joe Kaboski, Doug Gollin, Rachel Glennerster | 15 mins | The CEPR is launching a new research programme called Structural Transformation and Economic Growth. Why? | CEPR STEG | Development | |
| Time for beds | https://voxta.lk/timebeds | 29/05/2020 | Nathan Sussman | 20 mins | The mortality statistics of the Covid-19 outbreak suggest that your country's medical infrastructure has a big influence on how likely you are to survive. | Covid Economics 11 | Covid, Health | |
| Tech industry mergers | https://voxta.lk/techmerge | 22/05/2020 | Luis Cabral | 17 mins | Should competition authorities intervene more often in tech mergers? | DP14785 Merger Policy in Digital Industries | IO | |
| Helicopter money | https://voxta.lk/helicopt | 18/05/2020 | Donato Maschiandaro | 12 mins | In every crisis, economists will tell us that it is time for helicopter money, and Covid-19 is no different. But why do the helicopters never seem to take off? | Covid Economics 7 | Financial | |
| The Swedish solution to Covid-19 | https://voxta.lk/swedecov | 15/05/2020 | Dirk Krueger | 17 mins | Do we close our public spaces to protect our communities from Covid-19, or keep them open, as in Sweden? | Covid Economics 5 | Public, Covid | |
| The myth of British inventive genius | https://voxta.lk/britmyth | 08/05/2020 | David Edgerton | 18 mins | Has Britain's belief in its go-it-alone scientific and inventive genius stunted the nation's postwar growth? | The Economics of the Second World War Seventy-Five Years On | History | |
| Do the rich get more coronavirus tests? | https://voxta.lk/richtest | 29/04/2020 | Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé | 15 mins | Last month the media accused New York's wealthy residents of jumping the queue for Covid-19 testing. What is the evidence? | Covid Economics 8 | Covid, Public | |
| We need a Covid-19 debt standstill | https://voxta.lk/debtstand | 27/04/2020 | Ugo Panizza, Mitu Gulati | 22 mins | In a new paper called Born out of Necessity, a group of economists and lawyers propose a way for developing and emerging countries to temporarily redirect debt repayments to fund Covid-19 relief. | Born out of Necessity | Financial, Institutions, Development, Covid | |
| John Maynard Keynes's art portfolio | https://voxta.lk/keynesart | 21/04/2020 | David Chambers | 17 mins | Keynes amassed an extensive collection of fine art during his lifetime. We investigate the financial returns on his investment have been, and how to value an art portfolio as an asset. | DP14357 Art as an Asset: Evidence from Keynes the Collector | History, Financial | |
| Lessons from the Ebola crisis on dealing with Covid-19 | https://voxta.lk/ebola | 09/04/2020 | Oeindrila Dubé | 12 mins | The 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone affected an area which included a pioneering experiment in community healthcare, offering two important lessons to contain the spread of Covid-19 in Africa. | Development, Covid | ||
| Modelling the economic consequences of Covid-19 | https://voxta.lk/modelcov | 07/04/2020 | Warwick McKibbin | 13 mins | In January a macroeconomic model used in previous pandemics created seven scenarios for its impact. All imply a major shock to the global economy. Which policymakers listened to the warning? | Chapter 3 of Economics in the Time of Covid-19 | Covid | |
| How much do governments lend to each other in a crisis? | https://voxta.lk/govlend | 27/03/2020 | Christoph Trebesch | 11 mins | In international crises, disasters and wars, private lenders disappear. But new data on 200 years of official lending show governments have stepped in and lent far more to each other than we previously thought. | Coping with disasters: Lessons from two centuries of international response | DP14902 Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending | History, International, Monetary, Growth |
| The coronavirus shock to financial stability | https://voxta.lk/covidshock | 25/03/2020 | Enrico Perotti | 21 mins | Regulatory reform means that banks are unlikely to be at risk, but the same is not true for the shadow banking sector. Does this threaten financial stability? | The Coronavirus shock to financial stabiity | Covid | |
| A Covid credit line for Europe | https://voxta.lk/covidcredit | 23/03/2020 | Beatrice Weder di Mauro | 11 mins | A diverse group of economists has suggested the creation of an emergency Covid credit line in Europe. | A proposal for a Covid Credit Line | Covid, Monetary | |
| Singapore's response to Covid-19 | https://voxta.lk/singapore | 20/03/2020 | Danny Quah | 20 mins | How Singapore defended itself against the health and economic impact of Covid-19, and what other countries can learn from its actions. | Mitigating the Covid Economic Crisis | Covid | |
| The polarization of reality | https://voxta.lk/polarize | 20/03/2020 | Stefanie Stantcheva | 16 mins | We think about political polarization as a disagreement about policies. But what if the voters can't even agree on the facts? | DP14348 The Polarization of Reality | Public | |
| Economics in the time of Covid-19 | https://voxta.lk/timeofc19 | 10/03/2020 | Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Richard Baldwin | 19 mins | How big will Covid-19's economic consequences be? | Economics in the time of Covid-19 | Covid | |
| Women in Economics | https://voxta.lk/womenecon | 06/03/2020 | Shelly Lundberg, Donna Ginther, Jenna Stearns, Erin Hengel | 20 mins | Women are under-represented in economics, and the situation is not improving. How can we support the next generation of female economists? | Women in Economics | Labour | |
| Digital market merger policy | https://voxta.lk/digmerge | 28/02/2020 | Tomaso Duso | 18 mins | In the last decade, global digital giants have snapped up hundreds of smaller, innovative companies. Should competition authorities have intervened more often? | DP14166 Merger Policy in Digital Markets: An Ex-Post Assessment | IO | |
| The history of immigration quotas | https://voxta.lk/immquota | 21/02/2020 | Leah Boustan | 20 mins | A century ago, American nativists succeeded in establishing immigration quotas to drive up the wages of US workers. What happened next? | DP14165 The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure | History | |
| Education creates peace | https://voxta.lk/edupeace | 14/02/2020 | Dominic Rohner | 18 mins | New research shows how a school-building programme in Indonesia successfully reduced conflict. | DP13509 Education and Conflict: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Indonesia | Public, Development | |
| Central banks and regional inequality | https://voxta.lk/cbregion | 07/02/2020 | Andy Haldane | 13 mins | Is regional inequality a problem that central banks should worry about? | Financial, Regional | ||
| The origins of tech clusters | https://voxta.lk/clusters | 31/01/2020 | Bill Kerr | 27 mins | Why are cities so keen to create their own technology clusters, and why is it so difficult? | DP14143 Tech Clusters | Trade | |
| Betting on the Lord | https://voxta.lk/betlord | 24/01/2020 | Emmanuelle Auriol | 12 mins | An experiment in Haiti shows that people take more risks in the presence of religious images, even if there is less chance they will win. | DP14167 Betting on the Lord: Lotteries and Religiosity in Haiti | Development | |
| Regenerating the cities that were left behind | https://voxta.lk/regencity | 17/01/2020 | Tony Venables, Charles Goodhart | 14 mins | When the industries that have sustained our cities decline, how can we regenerate urban areas? | Public, Regional | ||
| Will there be a post-Brexit financial services deal? | https://voxta.lk/postbrex | 10/01/2020 | David Miles, Iain Begg | 16 mins | In 2020, the UK and the EU will try to strike a post-Brexit deal in financial services. What's at stake in the negotiations? | Trade | ||
| Has the randomista revolution gone too far? | https://voxta.lk/randomis | 23/12/2019 | Oriana Bandiera, Lant Pritchett | 15 mins | This year's Nobel prize celebrated the work of the economists who popularised randomised controlled trials. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? | Lant's argument against RCTs | Development | |
| Burying bad news | https://voxta.lk/badnews | 20/12/2019 | Ruben Durante | 16 mins | New research demonstrates what we all suspected: for decades, politicians have routinely used busy news days to bury unpopular announcements. | DP13961 Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders | Public | |
| Helping parents to read with their children | https://voxta.lk/helpread | 13/12/2019 | Denis Fougère, Carlo Barone | 23 mins | Language skills for preschoolers help them achieve more when they get to school, but some parents are better than others at helping their kids to develop these skills. | Fostering language skills for children in less-educated households | Education | |
| Wealth taxes | https://voxta.lk/wealthtax | 06/12/2019 | Marius Brülhart | 19 mins | A natural experiment in Switzerland's cantons that teaches us about how people would respond if countries decided to tax wealth instead of income. | DP14054 Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland | Public | |
| How the mobile internet changed politics | https://voxta.lk/mobint | 29/11/2019 | Sergei Guriev | 20 mins | The mobile internet, promises to give us access to information anywhere, 24 hours a day. So how has it influenced trust in governments, politics, and politicians? | DP14022 3G Internet and Confidence in Government | Development, Growth, Public | |
| Can the stock market help save the planet? | https://voxta.lk/mktsplan | 22/11/2019 | Ralph De Haas | 19 mins | A new paper implies that when stock markets play a bigger part in the economy, polluting industries become cleaner. | DP14012 Finance and Carbon Emissions | Financial | |
| The Great Expectations of the middle class | https://voxta.lk/midclass | 15/11/2019 | Jeffrey Chwieroth, Andrew Walter | 30 mins | When there's a financial crisis, policymakers and politicians increasingly kowtow to the demands of an influential group: the global middle class. | Satisfying the Great Expectations of the middle class | Institutions | |
| How to improve consumer credit ratings | https://voxta.lk/credrate | 08/11/2019 | Stefania Albanesi | 28 mins | Consumer credit ratings do a poor job at predicting which of us will default, but machine learning may improve them. | DP13914 Predicting Consumer Default: A Deep Learning Approach | Financial, Monetary | |
| Let's stay together | https://voxta.lk/staytog | 01/11/2019 | Shuai Chen | 12 mins | When the law changed to allow same-sex partners to get married, did the symbolism of marriage have any effect on the stability of relationships? | Sybolism matters: The effect of same-sex marriage legislation | DP13901 Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability | Labour |
| The cost of dying | https://voxta.lk/costdie | 25/10/2019 | Eric French | 18 mins | How much is spent on end-of-life care, and who foots the bill? | End-of-life medical expenses, Live Long and Prosper? The economics of ageing populations | Health, Public | |
| Increasing diversity in economics | https://voxta.lk/diversity | 16/10/2019 | Sarah Smith, Arun Advani, Rachel Griffith | 15 mins | The Royal Economic Society has launched Discover Economics, an ambitious three-year campaign to attract more women, minority students and students from state schools to study the subject. | Increasing diversity in UK economics | Labour | |
| The economics of an ageing population | https://voxta.lk/ageing | 11/10/2019 | David Bloom | 19 mins | We are living longer, and that affects every part of our economic future. | Health, Public | ||
| A new story of London's economic development | https://voxta.lk/devlon | 04/10/2019 | Nathan Sussman | 20 mins | Economists dated the growth of London's financial system, and its impact on the British economy, from the end of the 17th century. There's new evidence that it might have started much earlier. | DP13920 The Financial Development of London in the 17th Century Revisited: A View from the Accounts of the Corporation of London | History | |
| Lessons from the Irish banking crisis | https://voxta.lk/irishbank | 27/09/2019 | Patrick Honohan, Martin Sandbu | 20 mins | Patrick Honohan took over as governor of the Central Bank of Ireland in 2009 with the economy in meltdown, and steered it through its deepest crisis. His new book re-examines what happened. | The Irish crisis: Lessons for small central banks | Public | |
| The death of banks? | https://voxta.lk/deadbanks | 24/09/2019 | Tara Rice, Kathryn Petralia | 28 mins | Do fintechs and cryptocurrencies signal the beginning of the end for banks? | Banking, FinTech, Big tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers, Banking Disrupted? Financial Intermediation in an Era of Transformational Technology | Financial, Monetary | |
| Does foreign investment create green growth? | https://voxta.lk/greengrow | 13/09/2019 | Beata Javorcik | 12 mins | Foreign direct investment in developing economies may export pollution or generate green growth. Factory-level data tells us which. | Foreign acquisitions and energy intensity | DP13810 Good for the Environment, Good for Business: Foreign Acquisitions and Energy Intensity | International/Regional |
| The economic history of World War 2 | https://voxta.lk/econww2 | 06/09/2019 | Mark Harrison | 28 mins | On the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war, the economics of the war. | The economics of the Second World War | History, Conflict | |
| Africa's lands of opportunity | https://voxta.lk/landsopp | 30/08/2019 | Elias Papaioannou | 19 mins | If you are born in Africa today you have much better chances to succeed than your parents or grandparents. But which countries have the best, and worst, intergenerational mobility? | DP13497 Intergenerational Mobility in Africa | Development, History, Labour, Growth |
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| Could a $15 minimum wage save lives? | https://voxta.lk/15wage | 23/08/2019 | Michael Reich | 21 mins | New research implies that a $15 minimum wage doesn't just cut poverty, it also saves lives. But is Congress listening? | A way out from rock bottom: Economic policies can reduce deaths of despair | Public | |
| Investing in Brexit | https://voxta.lk/brexinv | 16/08/2019 | Holger Breinlich, Dennis Novy | 25 mins | As Brexit nears (again), are European firms investing in the UK to preserve access to its markets? And has "global Britain" got off the drawing board yet? | Voting with their Money: Brexit and Outward Investment by UK Firms | Trade | |
| Social media polarization | https://voxta.lk/mediapol | 09/08/2019 | Yves Zenou | 14 mins | When does social media polarize opinion, and when does it bring us closer together? | DP13860 Social Media and Polarization | Public | |
| Learning about ourselves | https://voxta.lk/ourselves | 02/08/2019 | Peter Schwardmann | 12 mins | Despite all the evidence to the contrary we continue to overestimate how much work we will do tomorrow, or how often we will go to the gym. Why? | DP13510 Learning about one's self | IO | |
| France's broken social elevator | https://voxta.lk/francebrk | 26/07/2019 | Laurence Boone | 17 mins | France has surprisingly low social mobility. The problem fuels the gilets jaunes protests, but what can be done about it? | A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility | Public, Labour | |
| The true cost of emissions cheating | https://voxta.lk/VWcheat | 19/07/2019 | Hannes Schwandt | 23 mins | The staggering human cost of VW's fraudulent 'green' diesel engines that have been polluting as much as 150 ordinary cars. | DP13805 The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating | Labour | |
| The benefits of starting school early | https://voxta.lk/startben | 12/07/2019 | Thomas Cornelissen | 18 mins | Children in different countries start school at very different ages. New research suggests an early start may help their development. | The benefits of starting school early | Public | |
| Italy is a very sick patient | https://voxta.lk/sickpat | 05/07/2019 | Fabio Ghironi | 14 mins | Are Italy's populist policies of miniBOTs and flat taxes the right medicine for its economic sickness? | Public | ||
| How the G20 can save world trade | https://voxta.lk/G20trade | 28/06/2019 | Simon Evenett | 17 mins | As the G20 gather in Japan, how the ministers could halt rising protectionism. | Jaw, jaw not war, war: The 24th Global Trade Alert | Trade | |
| The threat to global prosperity | https://voxta.lk/globpros | 21/06/2019 | Meredith Crowley | 16 mins | A new book from the CEPR argues that the current trade war is a long-term danger to all economies, not just those of the US and China. | The Clash of Economic Systems Endangering Global Prosperity | Trade | |
| What would Ricardo do? | https://voxta.lk/ricardodo | 14/06/2019 | Peter Neary | 19 mins | David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage has stood the test of time. So why do so many politicians ignore it? | Trade | ||
| The future of the welfare state | https://voxta.lk/welstate | 07/06/2019 | Minouche Shafik | 17 mins | This week UN special rapporteur claimed the UK's social safety net has been "replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos". Can our welfare states can survive in their current form? | LSE: Beveridge 2.0 | Public | |
| The Yrjo Jahnsson award | https://voxta.lk/yjaward | 31/05/2019 | Oriana Bandiera, Imran Rasul | 23 mins | The joint winners of the award given to the best European economist under 45. | Development | ||
| The cost of kids | https://voxta.lk/costkids | 24/05/2019 | Camille Landais | 19 mins | Women earn less than men after they start a family. Can better policies close the gap? | Child penalties across countries: Evidence and explanations | Public | |
| Managing the secret state | https://voxta.lk/secstate | 17/05/2019 | Mark Harrison | 19 mins | Did the KGB manage its informers using the iron fist or the invisible hand? | The Soviet economy, 1917-1991, Russia's national income 1913-1928, Costing secrecy, IZA DP9245: The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: | History | |
| The end of the WTO? | https://voxta.lk/endWTO | 10/05/2019 | Chad Bown | 20 mins | The WTO might be the biggest loser in this trade war. | DP14477 Why Trump Shot the Sheriffs: The End of WTO Dispute Settlement 1.0 | Trade | |
| The lost ones | https://voxta.lk/lostones | 03/05/2019 | MariaCristina De Nardi | 19 mins | Non-college-educated Americans born in the 1960s are dying younger, earning less, and paying more for healthcare than in their parents' generation. | DP13582 The lost ones: the opportunities and outcomes of non-college educated Americans born in the 1960s | Growth, Public | |
| How art auctions work | https://voxta.lk/artwork | 27/04/2019 | Katy Graddy | 13 mins | What does economics teach us about art auctions? | DP13665 Art Auctions | IO | |
| The 2018 trade war | https://voxta.lk/tradewar | 19/04/2019 | David Weinstein | 20 mins | Has the trade war with China been good for American businesses and consumers? The first results are in. | DP13564 The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare | Trade | |
| Girls, boys and multiple choice | https://voxta.lk/multiple | 12/04/2019 | Nagore Iriberri | 14 mins | How should multiple choice tests be scored so they don't accidentally penalise girls? | DP13541 Brave Boys and Play-it-Safe Girls: Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess in a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment | Labour, Public | |
| A green monetary policy | https://voxta.lk/greenmon | 05/04/2019 | Dirk Schoenmaker | 14 mins | We're not short of policies intended to save us from catastrophic climate change, but should monetary policy be part of this effort? | DP13576 Greening monetary policy | Financial, Monetary, Public | |
| RCTs in the long run | https://voxta.lk/RCTlong | 29/03/2019 | Ted Miguel | 22 mins | Do RCT interventions that work in the short run have a benefit 10 or 20 years later? | DP13443 Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics | Development | |
| Why are schools segregated? | https://voxta.lk/schoolseg | 22/03/2019 | Bas van der Klaauw | 13 mins | Schools in cities are less diverse than their neighbourhoods. it is not necessarily where we live that creates school segregation. | DP13462 Why are schools segregated? Evidence from the secondary-school match in Amsterdam | Labour, Public | |
| Love, money and parenting | https://voxta.lk/lmparent | 15/03/2019 | Fabrizio Zilibotti | 27 mins | We all want happy, successful kids. How can economics help? | Tiger moms and helicopter parents: The economics of parenting style | Labour | |
| Innovation policy for Europe | https://voxta.lk/innoeuro | 08/03/2019 | Diego Comin | 19 mins | The European Community's FRAME project researches innovation, and how it might be translated into policy. | FRAME, Publicly funded applied research pays off | IO | |
| The Big Data economy | https://voxta.lk/bigdata | 01/03/2019 | Laura Veldkamp | 11 mins | Unlike in conventional economic models, the digital economy makes it possible for data-savvy firms to grow very large, very quickly. | DP13489 Big Data and Firm Dynamics | IO, Monetary, Growth | |
| Gender bias in mathematics | https://voxta.lk/mathbias | 22/02/2019 | Paola Giuliano | 16 mins | Why do girls do less well than boys in school math tests? For many girls, the problem starts at home. | DP13504 Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math | Labour | |
| A history of international finance | https://voxta.lk/interfin | 15/02/2019 | Rui Esteves | 18 mins | A new data set compiles the history of international finance spanning a century and a half, revealing new information about globalisation, crises and capital flows. | DP13471 Public Debt Through the Ages | History, International | |
| Legal cannabis and the black economy | https://voxta.lk/legalcan | 08/02/2019 | Jonathan Ashworth | 12 mins | When Canada legalised recreational cannabis use, it had a big effect on how Canadian people used cash, unexpectedly crimping the black economy. | Canadian legalisation of cannabis reduces both cash usage and the ‘black’ economy | DP13448 Canadian Legalization of Cannabis reduces both its cash usage and 'Black' Economy | Monetary |
| The end of globalisation? | https://voxta.lk/endglob | 01/02/2019 | Kevin O'Rourke | 17 mins | Trade growth is slowing down. But is it, as the media and populist politicians claim, the end of globalisation? | DP13674 Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence | History, Trade/Regional, Growth | |
| Work in transition, part 2 | https://voxta.lk/trans2 | 25/01/2019 | Nate Young | 16 mins | How the growth of large cities in Europe's and Asia's transition economies affects economic growth and wellbeing. | EBRD Transition Report 2018-19 | Growth, Labour | |
| Work in transition, part 1 | https://voxta.lk/trans1 | 18/01/2019 | Sergei Guriev | 19 mins | How is the nature of work is changing in Europe and Asia's transition economies? | EBRD Transition Report 2018-19 | Growth, Labour | |
| Why we vote for protectionism | https://voxta.lk/protvote | 11/01/2019 | Gene Grossman | 10 mins | It blows the minds of economists that voters choose protectionist policies that make will them poorer. A new trade model can explain this by using insights from other social sciences. | DP13367 Identity Politics and Trade Policy | Trade, Public | |
| The half-life of injustice | https://voxta.lk/econjust | 04/01/2019 | David Miles | 22 mins | If our wealth has been acquired unjustly in the past, does that injustice fade or persist? | What is the half life of economic injustice? | DP13342 The Half Life of Economic Injustice | Financial, Growth |
| Superstar economists | https://voxta.lk/superstar | 28/12/2018 | Michael König | 12 mins | We usually measure the effectiveness of economists by how many papers they publish. But a new measure takes into account their influence on the work of their colleagues as well. | Using co-authorship networks to improve research rankings | DP13239 Superstar Economists: Coauthorship networks and research output | IO |
| Regulating cyber risk | https://voxta.lk/cybrisk | 21/12/2018 | Anil Kashyap, Anne Wetherilt | 10 mins | How should banks and their regulators manage cyber risk? | DP13324 Some Principles for Regulating Cyber Risk | Financial | |
| The end of men | https://voxta.lk/endmen | 14/12/2018 | Henry Siu | 15 mins | Women with college degrees are becoming more likely to get good jobs, but for college-educated men, the opposite is true. The demand for social skills may explain the trend. | DP13323 The "End of Men" and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market | Labour, Growth | |
| Short-time work | https://voxta.lk/shorttime | 07/12/2018 | Camille Landais, Giulia Giupponi | 13 mins | Even though countries all over the developed world implemented short-time work policies during the great recession, we didn't know whether they worked. Now we do. | DP13310 Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment & Welfare Effects of Short Time Work | Labour, Public | |
| Does prison work? | https://voxta.lk/priswork | 30/11/2018 | Gordon Dahl | 16 mins | We are sending more people to prison than ever. But we know surprisingly little about whether, and how, prison sentences cut crime. | Incarceration can be rehabilitative | Public | |
| Connecting to power | https://voxta.lk/conpower | 23/11/2018 | Ufuk Akcigit | 19 mins | Firms like to be politically connected, because it makes it easier for them to do business. But is it good for the rest of us? | Taxation and innovation in the 20th century, Immigrants and innovation in US history, Innovation, trade policy, and globalisation | DP13216 Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics | Growth |
| The world needs more migrants | https://voxta.lk/migrants | 16/11/2018 | Lant Pritchett | 19 mins | In the developed world popular resistance to immigration is rising. But the rate of migration from poor to rich countries may actually be five times too low. | Labour mobility and economic growth | Development, Labour | |
| The economics of the Great War | https://voxta.lk/greatwar | 09/11/2018 | Mark Harrison | 20 mins | Is the history of World War 1 that we learn at school the whole story? Economics can challenge the conventional wisdom about how the war started, why it was won and lost, and its consequences. | The economics of the Great War | History | |
| The rise of superstar firms | https://voxta.lk/superfirm | 02/11/2018 | John Van Reenen | 16 mins | Firms are becoming more unequal in every country and sector. Is the rise of a few superstar firms good or bad the economy? | Superstar firms, market power, and corporate inequality, Declining business dynamism and information technology | IO | |
| Why education reduces crime | https://voxta.lk/redcrime | 26/10/2018 | Stephen Machin | 12 mins | We know that increasing the school leaving age cuts crime, but why? | Why education reduces crime | DP13162 Why Does Education Reduce Crime? | Labour, Law |
| The making of modern London | https://voxta.lk/modlondon | 19/10/2018 | Stephen Redding | 21 mins | What accounts for London's explosive growth in the 19th and early 20th centuries? | The making of the modern metropolis | DP13170 The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London | Trade |
| The next recession will be a bad one | https://voxta.lk/nextrec | 12/10/2018 | Jeffrey Frankel | 16 mins | In the US, unemployment is at its lowest point for two decades. Wage growth is rising, the economy is growing. But many economists worry about the depth of the next recession. | The next recession could be a bad one | Financial | |
| Women and monetary policy | https://voxta.lk/womenpol | 05/10/2018 | Paola Profeta | 11 mins | Firms in which women are decision-makers tend to behave differently. and that means female central bankers have a measurable effect on monetary policy. | Why women matter in monetary policy | Monetary, Labour | |
| The impact of innovation | https://voxta.lk/impinnov | 28/09/2018 | Diego Comin | 17 mins | The FRAME Project was set up to find out the impact of innovation on macroeconomic outcomes such as productivity, job creation, and unemployment. | FRAME, Publicly funded applied research pays off | IO | |
| The missing profits of nations | https://voxta.lk/natprofs | 21/09/2018 | Thomas Tørsløv, Ludvig Weir | 19 mins | Every year multinational companies reduce their tax bills by about $200 billion simply by shifting profits to tax havens. Governments criticise tax loopholes and promise to close them. But at the same time they also use them to attract these paper profits to their jurisdiction. | The missing profits of nations | Public | |
| English in Europe | https://voxta.lk/engeuro | 14/09/2018 | Shlomo Weber | 10 mins | English is the most widely-spoken language in Europe, but after Brexit it will cease to be an official language of the EU. Shlomo Weber | The English language in the EU | Public | |
| IMF reform: An unfinished agenda | https://voxta.lk/IMFreform | 07/09/2018 | Barry Eichengreen, Charles Wyplosz, José De Gregorio, Takatoshi Ito | 29 mins | In the last 20 years, how has the IMF evolved, and what are the threats both to the IMF and the entire multilateral financial system. | IMF reform: The unfinished agenda | Development, Financial | |
| Populism in France | https://voxta.lk/popfrance | 31/08/2018 | Daniel Cohen | 19 mins | In the French presidential election the parties of right and left collapsed, beaten by a political newcomer Why do French voters no longer respond to traditional political messages? | Populism on VoxEU | Public | |
| The decline of northern England | https://voxta.lk/decnorth | 24/08/2018 | Neil Cummins | 16 mins | After a 200-year process of migration, the north of England and Wales lag the south in output per person, educational attainment, and even life expectancy. | The decline of northern England | History, Regional | |
| Financing the war on cancer | https://voxta.lk/warcancer | 17/08/2018 | Ralph Koijen | 11 mins | New drugs mean that many types of cancer are no longer a death sentence. But new medical treatments may have a catastrophic financial cost for patients. Life insurance, not medical insurance, could finance the war on cancer. | Financing the war on cancer | Public | |
| Explaining Germany's recovery | https://voxta.lk/germrec | 10/08/2018 | Dalia Marin | 12 mins | In 1997 Germany was called "the sick man of Europe". So what is behind its exceptional recovery? | Explaining Germany's exceptional recovery | Growth | |
| Tax evasion and inequality | https://voxta.lk/taxevade | 03/08/2018 | Annette Alstadsæter | 11 mins | It's routine for the rich to dodge tax by hiding it offshore. New whistleblower data tells us much of that wealth has been hidden illegally, and the impact on inequality. | Tax evasion and inequality | Public | |
| Robots and jobs | https://voxta.lk/robotjob | 01/08/2018 | Daron Acemoglu | 18 mins | If the robots are coming for our jobs, how many of us will they actually replace? | Robots and jobs, evidence from the US | Labour | |
| Will central banks issue digital currencies | https://voxta.lk/digcurren | 30/07/2018 | Beatrice Weder di Mauro | 11 mins | Economists have long been sceptical of the potential of cryptocurrencies and other electronic forms of money. But are central banks coming round to the idea? | Cryptocurrencies' challenge to central banks | Monetary | |
| The UK’s post-Brexit US trade deal | https://voxta.lk/brexdeal | 27/07/2018 | Dennis Novy | 20 mins | When President Trump spoke of his hope for "a great bilateral trade agreement” with the UK after Brexit, what did he really mean? | The fundamental factors behind the Brexit vote, The Brexit vote and inflation – updated evidence | Public, Trade | |
| What caused the growth of the Sicilian Mafia? | https://voxta.lk/themafia | 25/07/2018 | Giuseppe De Feo | 13 mins | We all know how films and television tell the story of the Mafia, but what can economics tell us about its origins? | Causes and consequences of the Sicilian mafia | Labour, Public | |
| The stubbornly high cost of remittances | https://voxta.lk/stubremit | 23/07/2018 | Stephen Cechetti, Kim Schoenholtz | 12 mins | For the families of millions of migrant workers around the world, remittances can literally be a life-saver. But the cost of sending money home remains puzzlingly high. | The stubbornly high cost of remittances | Financial, Development | |
| The return of regional inequality | https://voxta.lk/regional | 20/07/2018 | Joan Rosés, Nikolaus Wolf | 14 mins | For most of the 20th century, inequality between Europe's regions declined. But what has happened in the last 40 years? Joan Rosés, Nikolaus Wolf | The return of regional inequality | Public, Regional | |
| How blockchain technology is changing finance | https://voxta.lk/blockfin | 18/07/2018 | Simon Johnson | 13 mins | Blockchain technology has the potential to be a catalyst for change in the financial sector. But can it overcome its technical limitations and governance problems? | The Blockchain catalyst for change | Financial |
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