VoxEU Videos

The pulse of the economy

• Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin discusses the need for parsimonious models that exploit a data-rich environment to capture the simple drivers of the economy from complex data sets.

Did Brexit break the bank?

• Swati Dhingra

Swati Dhingra asks what Brexit tells us about the contribution of globalisation to the productivity and wage stagnation we see across the developed world.

Breaking habits

• Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo discusses how she has been involved in a number of experiments aimed at getting people to consume iron in various forms, but none of them have been entirely successful.

What really governs your choice of school?

• Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess of Bristol University discusses how, despite any tactics involved in parental selection, the key factor in a successful application to an oversubscribed school in the UK will still be how close to it you can afford to live.

Unpaid tax

• Arun Advani

Last year, the UK failed to bring in £33 billion in tax. Arun Advani discusses the role tax audits can play in helping to bring this money in.

Female leadership

• Esther Duflo

Why forecasts don't work

• John Kay

When the student becomes the teacher

• Marianne Bertrand

The economic benefits of immigration

• Ahmed Mobarak

Randomized Controlled Trials

• Esther Duflo

Economic challenges for Europe

Why we need to listen to citizens

• André Sapir