VoxTalks

Learn about groundbreaking new research, commentary and policy ideas from the world's leading economists. Currently presented by Tim Phillips.

Recent VoxTalks

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The illusion of control

23 Sep 2022

Finance and Fintech
Financial Markets
Global crisis

VoxEU Talk

Does inequality create growth?

16 Sep 2022

Development & Growth
Poverty and Income Inequality

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Ghost firms and tax fraud

Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz talk to Tim Phillips about how the tax authority in Ecuador recouped lost revenues.

9 Sep 2022

Development & Growth
Political Economy
Taxation

All VoxTalks

VoxEU Talk

The illusion of control

We need a financial system, but does that mean we must also have regular financial crises? Jon Danielsson tells Tim Phillips that systemic risk is higher now than it was in 2008.

23 Sep 2022

VoxEU Talk

Does inequality create growth?

If we are less equal, is that good or bad news for economic growth? Reto Foellmi reviewed the research, and he has some answers for Tim Phillips.

16 Sep 2022

VoxEU Talk

Ghost firms and tax fraud

Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz talk to Tim Phillips about how the tax authority in Ecuador recouped lost revenues.

9 Sep 2022

VoxEU Talk

Our workless future

As intelligent autonomous machines become better at doing all our jobs, will there be enough work and income to go around? Anton Korinek talks to Tim Phillips.

2 Sep 2022

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The political economy of lockdown

During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries with free media more likely to act – and were their citizens more likely to comply? Tim Besley and Sacha Dray talk to Tim Phillips about their new research.

12 Aug 2022

Political Economy

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Divest or engage?

When pension giant ABP faced protests about its fossil fuel investment strategy, did it choose to exert pressure on oil companies or divest from them? Jeff Wurgler and Dirk Schoenmaker talk to Tim Phillips about how the finance sector can accelerate a green transition.

3 Aug 2022

VoxEU Talk

Yellow vests and carbon taxes

Opposition to a carbon tax was at the root of the gilets jaunes protests in France. Did the protestors think the tax wouldn’t work, or that it wasn’t fair, or that they would personally lose out? Adrien Fabre talks to Tim Phillips about the link between tax and trust in government.

29 Jul 2022

Distracted donors and political violence

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Distracted donors and political violence

When aid donors are distracted by domestic concerns, do aid recipients take advantage to suppress political opposition? Data from Africa suggest that they do, Dominic Rohner tells Tim Phillips.

27 Jul 2022

VoxEU Talk

The global real interest rate

Global real rates are stuck at a low level, and until recently policy rates everywhere were effectively zero. Can we use historical data to explain why this happened, and to predict whether we will be back at the ZLB when inflation falls? Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Ricardo Reis talk to Tim Phillips.

20 Jul 2022

VoxEU Talk

Covid-19’s impact on innovation

The Covid crisis inspired extraordinary innovation. Carsten Fink and Reinhilde Veugelers are two of the editors of a new ebook from CEPR called Resilience and Ingenuity that examines how countries, organisations and industries were able to innovate. Tim Phillips asks them what worked, what didn’t, and whether we can keep up the pace of new ideas.

15 Jul 2022

VoxEU Talk

Causes and costs of populism

What does history teach us about the economic impact of populism – and is our taste for populists a bug or a feature of democracy? Tim Phillips talks to Moritz Schularick and Massimo Morelli.

13 Jul 2022

Levelling up Europe’s left-behind places

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Levelling up Europe’s left-behind places

Henry Overman

Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Inequality isn’t just between individuals, but between regions too. Henry Overman explains to Tim Phillips why these disparities exist, why they are so persistent, and whether regional policies to “level up” left-behind places will succeed.

8 Jul 2022