Science

VoxTalks Economics

by VoxTalks

Is this your show? Claim it

Listen on Apple Podcasts RSS feed

Recently ranked · United States

Last recorded placements from this show’s chart history. These are not current rankings.

Not on the United States charts we track today.

If you like VoxTalks Economics, try…

PIIE Insider LIVE

Also in Science

Reuters Econ World

Latest episodes

The challenges to the international financial system

October 23, 2026 · 27 min

The 29th Geneva Report on the World Economy examines three pressures on the international financial system at once: global imbalances, the status of the dollar, and the stability of bond markets. Two of its authors, Valentina Bruno…
Life after divorce

October 16, 2026 · 21 min

Who gets the kids? Courts aim to decide custody in the child's best interests, but nobody has had the data to test how well those decisions work. Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego, CEPR), Costas Meghir (Yale, CEPR) and seven co-authors built the…
Not wearing Prada

October 9, 2026 · 19 min

Since March 2022, it has been harder to buy an iPhone in Russia, because Apple chose to stop selling there. So did Prada, Renault, Starbucks, Nike and more than 1,000 other firms. These private sanctions added to the official sanctions…
Merit, masters and China's imperial exam

October 2, 2026 · 21 min

For more than 1,300 years, China chose its top officials by written exam. Its top officials were chosen meritocratic ally -- or were they? When the results came out, each successful candidate went to pay his respects to the men who had…
Decoupling from China after Trump's Trade Wars

September 25, 2026 · 29 min

In March 2025, Apple chartered cargo flights to deliver 600 tonnes of iPhones from India to the United States. A year earlier, four in five smartphones that imported to the US came from China. One of the aims of US trade policy has been…

Show 7 more episodesShow fewer episodes

Loosening inheritance law

September 18, 2026 · 26 min

In most of the world you do not get to choose who inherits your money. Across continental Europe, Latin America, and countries governed by Islamic law, a minimum share of your estate will be reserved for your children, your spouse, and in…
Does sacking the manager work?

September 11, 2026 · 18 min

Your football team keeps losing. The season is slipping away. One thing can be changed by Friday, and the crowd is already singing about it: sack the manager. Jan van Ours (Erasmus School of Economics, CEPR, Feyenoord fan) has looked at…
Lessons from Populism in Latin America

September 4, 2026 · 33 min

The new episode of VoxTalks Economics traces the effects of South Americans populism, left and right. Alejandro Werner (Georgetown Americas Institute) is one of the authors of a new paper that traces populist governments across Latin…
The Dollar Anchor Is Slipping

September 2, 2026 · 26 min

April 2025: Liberation Day. President Trump announces sweeping new tariffs. And then, the dollar did something a safe haven currency is not supposed to do: it fell. Tarek Hassan (Boston University, CEPR), working with Thomas Mertens…
Fiscal Populism and Monetary Policy

August 28, 2026 · 16 min

There is a saying in Spanish: get burned by hot milk, and the sight of a cow makes you cry. New research implies that, decades after a populist government leaves office, the central bank it once tried to control is still flinching. Martín…
Tariffs, Uncertainty, and the Exchange Rate

August 26, 2026 · 24 min

Textbook economics says a tariff should strengthen a country's currency. Since the start of 2025, as US tariffs rose ... and the dollar fell. In the first of four episodes of Voxtalks based on papers presented at the second Economic…
Combatting sexual harassment in the military

August 21, 2026 · 21 min

Norwegian conscripts arrive at boot camp straight out of school. They are assigned at random to a shared room and they live in it for the next eight weeks. Whatever the culture of that room turns out to be, they are stuck with it. We know…