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Does politics sell newspapers?
Season 6 Episode 16
When the political debate hots up in the world’s largest democracy, is this good for newspaper circulation? Guilhem Cassan talks to Tim Phillips abou…
2 years, 11 months ago
A troublesome transition
Season 6 Episode 15
Emerging economies need to undergo a green energy metamorphosis, which for many of them has only just started. But can they transform without creatin…
2 years, 11 months ago
How should we measure expected inflation?
Season 6 Episode 14
There is more than one way to measure expected inflation. But which methods are most reliable, and how well did they predict the upward trend in Euro…
3 years ago
Corporate taxation and carbon emissions
Season 6 Episode 13
How does the rate of tax that firms pay relate to their carbon emissions? If firms that pay less emit more, then taxation may be delivering a subsidy…
3 years ago
What’s missing from climate risk stress tests
Season 6 Episode 12
Stress testing can potentially capture the impact of climate change on the health of the financial system. But Dirk Schoenmaker tells Tim Phillips th…
3 years ago
Hobbesian wars and the separation of powers
Season 6 Episode 11
When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in the 17th century, he argued that the state has absolute authority over its citizens. The principal that the…
3 years ago
Larry Summers on the global economy
Season 6 Episode 10
Bonus episode: At the American Economic Association’s annual meeting 2023 in New Orleans, CEPR got the chance to ask Larry Summers three big question…
3 years ago
Building a resilient vaccine supply chain
Season 6 Episode 9
What have we learned about how to create, manufacture, and distribute a new vaccine? Can countries cooperate to create a responsive and resilient sup…
3 years ago
Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG
Season 6 Episode 8
Every CEO, investor, and NGO needs an ESG strategy, and they need it now. But is that urgency making smart people ignore established insights from d…
3 years, 1 month ago
AI is reshaping economic research
Season 6 Episode 7
We’ve reached a moment at which large language models like ChatGPT have clearly become useful, but for what exactly? Anton Korinek has discovered at …
3 years, 1 month ago