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What's next for Ukraine: Reconstruction
Season 9 Episode 15
Ukraine's cities were failing long before the Russian invasion began. Kyiv and Lviv ranked among the 40 most congested cities in the world, yet neit…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What’s next for Ukraine: Investment
Season 9 Episode 14
Ukraine will emerge from this war with enormous debt. The conventional wisdom treats that as an obstacle: investors weigh it before committing capit…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The alpha political male
Season 9 Episode 13
Recorded live at the CEPR Annual Symposium. We seem to be talking about the behaviour of alpha males on social media a lot recently. But what happens…
2 months ago
Management under the spotlight
Season 9 Episode 12
What type of manager would you be? An experiment in Ethiopia set out to measure the management traits of young professionals by setting them challen…
2 months ago
The next generation: Paris ‘25
Season 9 Episode 11
Recorded live at the CEPR Annual Symposium in Paris.
When VoxTalks Economics visits a symposium or conference, we try to find the most interesting n…
2 months, 1 week ago
How many people die when the US cuts foreign aid?
Season 9 Episode 10
Another special episode recorded at the CEPR annual symposium in Paris. On 20 Jan 2025 when the Trump administration declared foreign aid “antitheti…
2 months, 1 week ago
What should Europe do about Trump?
Season 9 Episode 9
Recorded at the CEPR Annual Forum in Paris. Many of the Trump administration policies have direct consequences for Europe. Some of them are directly…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The economic consequences of living longer
Season 9 Episode 8
Recorded at the CEPR Annual Symposium in Paris. As we expect to live longer, what does this mean for the choices we make, and for the economy? What …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How exchange rates responded to tariffs
Season 9 Episode 7
After Liberation Day, the dollar fell by 6%. We would usually expect tariffs to send exchange rates in the other direction. So what happened?
In anot…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What's next for Trump’s tariffs?
Season 9 Episode 6
In 2025, the trade story was about tariffs. And that story isn’t over. Does anyone know what happens next?
Richard Baldwin of IMD Business School an…
2 months, 4 weeks ago