🎧 Morten Hansen (SSE Riga) on fighting inflation, how deep recession should we expect, energy prices & what will it take to rebuild Ukraine. Ep.95

Morten Hansen is the Head of the Economics department at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. Morten has been working as a lecturer for over 20 years as well as serves as vice-chairman of Fiscal Discipline Council of Latvia.

In this episode we talk about:

• Inflation origins and how to fight it
• What is the magnitude of the looming recession?
• Is wage growth going to stop anytime soon?
• Can governments handle the rising interest rates on their debt?
• Why are the Baltics seeing higher inflation than other EU countries?
• The impact of war on Ukraine economy
• Microeconomic silver lining for economic hardships
• Is there a correlation between academic achievements and career success

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