VoxTalks

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

Recent VoxTalks

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

Labour Markets
Political Economy

VoxEU Talk

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

COVID-19
Political Economy

Political Economy

VoxEU Talk

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

Environment
Financial Markets

All VoxTalks

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

VoxEU Talk

The political economy of lockdown

12 Aug 2022

Political Economy

VoxEU Talk

Divest or engage?

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

VoxEU Talk

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

VoxEU Talk

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

VoxEU Talk

Closing the European data gap

Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Researchers and policymakers need data, but in Europe, they often cannot access the right data at the right time. Filippo di Mauro and Ugo Panizza invite Tim Phillips for coffee to explain how these problems hold back research and decision-making – and suggest what can be done to close the economic data gap.

7 Jul 2022

Frontiers of economic research

VoxEU Talk

Defusing the carbon bombs

Sanctions against Russia have sent the price of oil and gas rocketing – triggering more, not less, fossil fuel extraction, and some giant projects that have been called “carbon bombs”.

29 Jun 2022

VoxEU Talk

Inflation and Europe’s public finances

Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: What are the consequences of an extended period of above-target inflation for the euro area? Agnès Bénassy-Quéré and Giancarlo Corsetti discuss policy options with Tim Phillips.

24 Jun 2022