S3 Ep26: Structural transformation and economic growth
This week the CEPR launches a new research programme called STEG - Structural Transformation and Economic Growth. Ahead of the kick-off workshop on June 4 and 5, Joe Kaboski and Doug Gollin tell Tim P...
3 Jun 202014min
S3 Ep25: Time for beds
The mortality statistics of the Covid-19 outbreak suggest that your country's medical infrastructure has a big influence on how likely you are to survive. Nathan Sussman has examined the data and tell...
29 Mai 202019min
S3 Ep24: Tech industry mergers
Should competition authorities intervene more often in tech mergers? Be careful, Luis Cabral tells Tim Phillips: they risk stifling innovation if they do.
22 Mai 202016min
S3 Ep23: Helicopter money
In every crisis, economists will tell us that it is time for helicopter money, and Covid-19 is no different. But the helicopters never seem to take off. Donato Maschiandaro tells Tim Phillips why not....
18 Mai 202012min
S3 Ep22: The Swedish solution to Covid-19
Do we close our public spaces to protect our communities from Covid-19, or keep them open, as in Sweden? Dirk Krueger tells Tim Phillips that informing the public and then trusting individuals to make...
15 Mai 202017min
S3 Ep21: The myth of British inventive genius
On the 75 anniversary of the VE Day, David Edgerton tells Tim Phillips that Britain's belief in its go-it-alone scientific and inventive genius is “deluded”, and has stunted the nation's postwar growt...
8 Mai 202017min
S3 Ep20: Do the rich get more coronavirus tests?
Last month the media accused New York's wealthy residents of jumping the queue for Covid-19 testing. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, a New York resident herself, ran the numbers. She tells Tim Phillips what ...
29 Apr 202015min
S3 Ep19: We need a Covid-19 debt standstill
In a new paper called Born out of necessity, a group of economists and lawyers propose a way for developing and emerging countries to temporarily redirect debt repayments to fund Covid-19 relief. Ugo...
27 Apr 202022min
