VoxTalks Economics
Learn about groundbreaking new research, commentary and policy ideas from the world's leading economists. Presented by Tim Phillips.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 408
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
S8 Ep46: Is Davos more than a boondoggle?
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, attended by thousands of business and policy VIPs – is one of those events that pops up on the news every year, as we see photos of multinati…
00:17:38 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
S8 Ep45: The stickiness of gender biased norms
The belief that women are in some way inferior to men has been around for centuries. And throughout that time, women have suffered the consequences. Economists have lately been trying to understand m…
00:23:15 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
S8 Ep44: In coin we trust
On 4 August, Paul Atkins, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, launched “Project Crypto”. The SEC wants to make the US “the crypto capital of the world”. Crypto investors make a lo…
00:27:31 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
S8 Ep43: Strategic cops and robbers
How do criminals choose the weapons they carry, the number of accomplices, the types of business they target? Economists have long argued that decisions to commit economic crimes are strategic, based…
00:22:58 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
The gender wage gap in advanced economies isn’t shrinking. What can firms do to eliminate the part of the wage gap that comes from discrimination? T…
The gender wage gap in advanced economies isn’t shrinking. What can firms do to eliminate the part of the wage gap that comes from discrimination? T…
00:18:59 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
S8 Ep41: Bertrand: Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
One of the mysteries for economists and policymakers has been the reluctance of men to take paternity leave, no matter how generous the terms offere…
One of the mysteries for economists and policymakers has been the reluctance of men to take paternity leave, no matter how generous the terms offere…
00:15:21 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
S8 Ep40: Petrongolo: Gender and the labour market
From our series recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. How much progress have we made in finding out the source of gender inequality at work?
At the Forum, Barbara Petrongolo of the Univer…
At the Forum, Barbara Petrongolo of the Univer…
00:25:12 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
S8 Ep39: The next generation: PSE ’25
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
This week, we interview three of the next generation of economists. At the forum, a group of young researchers were presenting their work in the mai…
This week, we interview three of the next generation of economists. At the forum, a group of young researchers were presenting their work in the mai…
00:33:29 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
S8 Ep38: The state of globalisation
Are global economic flows collapsing, or are they reorganising? That’s one of the intriguing questions asked by a new CEPR publication called The State of Globalisation. It brings together a series o…
00:29:05 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
S8 Ep37: The effect of working from home on house prices
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
Now that many of us work part or all our week at home, does that mean we want to move to a different area, or a larger house? And what is the effect…
Now that many of us work part or all our week at home, does that mean we want to move to a different area, or a larger house? And what is the effect…
00:20:53 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
S8 Ep36: Davis: Will working from home stick?
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
Go back six or seven years and working from home was an exception. Bosses discouraged it, contracts didn’t mention it, and we didn’t have the techno…
Go back six or seven years and working from home was an exception. Bosses discouraged it, contracts didn’t mention it, and we didn’t have the techno…
00:19:10 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
S8 Ep35: The global impact of AI
If we focus on the cutting edge of AI implementation, we’re also focusing on a small set of technologically advanced countries. How will AI affect work in the rest of the world, what should those cou…
00:18:52 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
S8 Ep34: How good are LLMs at doing our jobs?
In the second of special series recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025, we are asking, how good is AI at doing real-world job task? And how can we measure their capability without resorting…
00:18:03 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
S8 Ep33: Autor: Automation and the value of expertise
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
This year the annual Paris School of Economics-PSE Policy Forum is organized around three themes: artificial intelligence and labour reallocation, w…
This year the annual Paris School of Economics-PSE Policy Forum is organized around three themes: artificial intelligence and labour reallocation, w…
00:29:40 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
S8 Ep32: Bonus episode: From soft landings to hard realities
The Bank for International Settlements Annual Economic Report has just dropped, and there’s a markedly less positive tone than last year, when it was celebrating imminent soft landings in the global …
00:32:14 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
S8 Ep31: Does better school management boost test scores?
Whether you are looking at the link from education to economic growth, household earnings or individual happiness, there’s no doubt that a better-educated population is good news. But how can policy …
00:24:09 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
S8 Ep30: Do car bans hurt politicians?
Pedestrianised areas, car-free streets, or low traffic neighbourhoods are increasingly visible in major cities. Whether in London, Paris, New York or Barcelona, these changes are always controversial…
00:27:39 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
S8 Ep29: Finding meaning at work
What’s the point of having a job? Clearly, to make money for ourselves and our families. But is it possible for us to discover some bigger purpose or meaning at work. And, if we do, who benefits? Tha…
00:19:14 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
S8 Ep28: How to curb the bias against female experts
Does the public take more notice of the opinions of male or female economists? We know that female experts, whether in science, politics or the media, suffer from an authority gap: their expertise is…
00:26:22 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
S8 Ep27: The Grievance Doctrine
What if trade policy wasn’t really about trade at all? What if it was about revenge, power, and punishment, tariffs as tantrums and diplomacy as drama? You won’t find the Grievance Doctrine in econom…
00:29:02 |
Fri 30 May 2025
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