VoxTalks

The VoxTalk podcast series began in 2008 and now, along with the new weekly episodes, it offers access to a fascinating archive of world-class economists discussing their research in detail.

VoxTalks

VoxEU Talk

Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG

Alex Edmans

17 Mar 2023

Environment
Financial Markets
Financial Regulation and Banking

VoxEU Talk

AI is reshaping economic research

Anton Korinek

10 Mar 2023

Frontiers of economic research
Productivity and Innovation

VoxEU Talk

Powerful forces are reshaping global trade

Beata Javorcik

3 Mar 2023

Global economy
International trade

VoxEU Talk

Will Ukraine's economy survive the war?

Yevhenii Skok interviewed by
Tim Phillips

Are the Ukrainian economy and financial system holding up to Russia's bombardment? Yevhenii Skok tells Tim Phillips whether emergency policies have been able to maintain liquidity and financial stability, how much damage has been done to Ukraine's productive capacity, and what a post-war financial rebuild would look like.

25 Mar 2022

Do schools change our religious attitudes?

VoxEU Talk

Do schools change our religious attitudes?

Does compulsory religious education make us more likely to believe as adults, and does it make us more ethical? Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow, and Benjamin Arold explain to Tim Phillips what educational reform in Germany can tell us.

18 Mar 2022

Education

Women's liberation, household revolution

VoxEU Talk

Women's liberation, household revolution

Until the second half of the 19th century, coverture laws granted married men almost unlimited power over the household. Moshe Hazan and David Weiss tell Tim Phillips about how abolition changed the number of children in a family, and how well those children were educated?

11 Mar 2022

VoxEU Talk

Raising the pressure on Putin

Which economic sanctions against Russia are lawful, which are politically feasible, and which will bite? In the second of VoxEU's series of commentaries on the economic consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, Luis Garicano - economist and MEP - describes what has been done so far and what more can be done.

5 Mar 2022

Ukraine Initiative

VoxEU Talk

The lockdown supply shock

Isabelle Mejean interviewed by
Tim Phillips

China's Covid lockdown in early 2020 shocked the business world. How did this surprise disruption affect the firms that rely on imported Chinese products? Isabelle Mejean tells Tim Phillips about the economic impact in France, and which firms were most resilient.

4 Mar 2022

A positive inflation target for the euro area

VoxEU Talk

A positive inflation target for the euro area

Klaus Adam interviewed by
Tim Phillips

Inflation reduces economic welfare by distorting demand. But what is the inflation rate that minimises these distortions? Maybe it's a lot higher than our models assume, Klaus Adam tells Tim Phillips.

25 Feb 2022

Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies

VoxEU Talk

Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies

A recent experiment in Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine attempted to overcome deep-seated prejudice against the LGBT community using information. Ralph De Haas and Cevat Aksoy of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development tell Tim Phillips about which messages cut through, and what impact can they have in the face of religious and state hostility.

18 Feb 2022

VoxEU Talk

A French revolution in state-building

One of the most remarkable achievements of the French Revolution for ordinary people was the reorganisation of local government. Cédric Chambru, Emeric Henry and Benjamin Marx tell Tim Phillips how local state capitals emerged as a result, and what this tells us about how state capacity develops.

11 Feb 2022

Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre

VoxEU Talk

Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre

Thorsten Beck interviewed by
Tim Phillips

Since the GFC the UK has used innovative macroprudential and monetary policy tools to maintain stability. But the UK is an international financial centre, and so does this policy framework create spillovers in other places, and do influences from elsewhere affect stability in the UK? Yes and yes, says Thorsten Beck.

4 Feb 2022

VoxEU Talk

Managing risk in global supply chains

Richard Baldwin interviewed by
Tim Phillips

Covid-19 demonstrated that modern global supply chains do not guarantee food in supermarkets or PPE in hospitals. Richard Baldwin tells Tim Phillips how risky these supply chains really are, and what we could do to shore them up.

28 Jan 2022

VoxEU Talk

The other great migration

Samuel Bazzi interviewed by
Tim Phillips

In the 20th century at least 6 million African Americans migrated from poor southern states to northern cities to escape discrimination and poverty, changing the course of American history. At least as many whites also migrated, taking their ideas with them. Samuel Bazzi tells Tim Phillips that they have also influenced social structures and politics in the US.

21 Jan 2022

VoxEU Talk

AI: software for autocrats?

Noam Yuchtman interviewed by
Tim Phillips

The Chinese government isn't just a world leader in the use of AI for facial recognition, its orders are funding innovation in its domestic industry too. But what's good news for entrepreneurs may be bad news for political protest, Noam Yuchtman tells Tim Phillips.

14 Jan 2022