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Who should work, and how much?
Season 8 Episode 10
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Do the most productive people work more or less than others? It’s a question that is constantly asked in econom…
1 year, 2 months ago
A European climate bond
Season 8 Episode 9
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Europe faces a gigantic climate investment gap. Can an EU climate debt financing scheme help to close it? To do…
1 year, 2 months ago
Can planting trees change the climate?
Season 8 Episode 8
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. At COPs or the WEF, we regularly hear about ambitious tree-planting initiatives. These massive programs have be…
1 year, 2 months ago
The impact of financial deglobalisation
Season 8 Episode 7
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. For several decades, global financial markets have been increasingly integrated. But has that process now gone…
1 year, 2 months ago
Do cryptocurrencies matter?
Season 8 Episode 6
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Can cryptocurrencies be useful? Not just for crypto bro speculators, but as a shield against the depreciation o…
1 year, 2 months ago
What impact have trade sanctions had on Russia?
Season 8 Episode 5
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. How effective have the trade sanctions imposed on Russia in 2022 been? Politically, they were comprehensive and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Crime and punishment?
Season 8 Episode 4
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it was already under sanctions for annexing Crimea in 201…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump’s tariffs: Help for the heartland?
Season 8 Episode 3
In economically depressed regions of the US – the “heartland” – President Trump’s 2018 trade war was a popular decision: “We’re going to bring jobs b…
1 year, 3 months ago
What policymakers get wrong about US trade deficits
Season 8 Episode 2
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. For two decades Maurice Obstfeld has been researching the causes and consequences of the global trade imbalance…
1 year, 3 months ago
Can AI forecasts improve crisis response?
Season 8 Episode 1
Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. In the first of a series of episodes from CEPR’s annual festival of new research, we ask: can artificial intell…
1 year, 3 months ago