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Technology and distribution of financial markets

• Thierry Foucault

The anatomy of a financial crisis

• Stephen Cecchetti

What is the source of a financial crisis? Why are financial systems fragile and why do they occasionally collapse? Stephen Cecchetti talks about his study on this topic. What he calls the anatomy of a financial crisis, can unfold in five steps in which people’s willingness to take on risks and their trust in financial institutions play a key role.

Why do some regions fail to recover from economic shocks?

• Anthony Venables

Do people really want sustainable financial products?

• Rob Bauer

Rob Bauer talks about his recent study where he finds that about 70% of the subjects interviewed during his field experiment are willing to have a more sustainable portfolio at the expense of a certain amount of financial return. But is this the only learning from this research?

Why integrated trade networks matter

• Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin suggests creating an interface that allows the two forms of capitalism – China’s state-led and the West’s market-led capitalism – to live together in a mutually beneficial way.

The danger of market dependency

• Lars-Hendrik Röller

Lars-Hendrik Röller explains the danger of supply chains that become too dependent on a single country with different political beliefs from the others.

Is development linked to colonialism?

• Leticia Arroyo Abad

Leticia Arroyo-Abad presents her study on different paths to development in North and South America, in which she looks at different legal frameworks of institutions, how they evolved over time in different regions and their effect.

Normal fiscal rules don’t apply in abnormal times

• Jean Pisani-Ferry

Jean Pisani-Ferry says that in uncertain times standard recipes do not apply, these are an opportunity for policymakers to be open and creative.

How do you successfully do a carbon tax?

• Frederick van der Ploeg

Rick Van Der Ploeg says that the only way to obtain overwhelming support for carbon pricing is by making sure that as many people as possible benefit from the green tax reform.

Why do we need competition policy?

• Tommaso Valletti

Tommaso Valletti, leader of the CEPR Competition Policy RPN, talks about his recent research on competition policy and looks at the relationship between market power and political power.

Why Governments should invest

• Agnès Bénassy-Quéré

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré calls on governments to invest more in climate adaptation and mitigation, since fiscal sustainability can be greatly hindered by the absence of climate sustainability.

How Brexit impacts service jobs

• Beata Javorcik

Beata Javorcik talks about her research on the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the consequent prospect of higher barriers to services exports on the UK job market.