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Coronavirus: The Whole Story - How do we build pandemic resilience?A UCL Minds podcast featuring Professor Sir Richard Blundell. This week, we speak to two UCL experts to find out what we can do to help mitigate the long-term harms of coronavirus and reduce the risk of future pandemics. In this episode, we ask: how long will the impacts of COVID-19 last - and will we start seeing many more pandemics in future? | Rethinking economics in the light of COVID |
UCL Economics: Research Digest Ep 1: The impact of school closures on the spread of COVID-19 in GermanyA UCL Economics podcast featuring Ramin Nassehi and Fabien Postel-Vinay. December 2020 Our academics talk about the impact of school closures on the spread of coronavirus in Germany, covering the exciting research by Uta Schönberg, Kirill Borusyak and Clara von Bismarck-Osten. | UCL Economics: Research Digest Ep 2: COVID, work and mental healthA UCL Economics podcast featuring Ramin Nassehi and Fabien Postel-Vinay. December 2020 Ramin talks to Professor Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL) about his research on work and mental health. |
| The Impact of School Closures on Young Girls During an EpidemicA podcast featuring Imran Rasul August 2020 Listen to Dr. Imran Rasul as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about his research on the impact of school closures on young girls during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. He discusses the findings and their implications on policy making during the pandemic in the context of Pakistan. Dr. Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London. He is co-director ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Research Programme Director, Firms Portfolio, International Growth Centre (IGC). |
Economic Policy during the Pandemic: A European Perspective
A podcast by John Hassler, Morten Ravn and Kjetil Storesletten | Ideas@Work: Wendy Carlin on post-COVID economicsA podcast with Toby Shannan and Wendy Carlin
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COVID-19: the impacts of the pandemic on inequality
An event with Xiaowei Xu and Richard Blundell At this event, IFS researchers will discuss how COVID-19 has interacted with existing inequalities and consider the potential long-term legacy of the pandemic on inequality. | Capitalism after Coronavirus 2020: The Third PoleA conversation with Luis Garicano and Wendy Carlin In this new episode of #CapitalismAfterCoronavirus I talk with Wendy Carlin, professor of Economics at the University College of London, Ph.D. in Oxford. She is a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an expert advisor to the UK Treasury and a founder of CORE, an organization that promotes a new approach to teaching economics. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and the economics of transition. We talk about economics paradigms and the role of civil society. |
The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 NarrativeA Santa Fe Institute Multidisciplinary Webinar, featuring Wendy Carlin and Sam Bowles In this hour-long virtual discussion, Sam Bowles and Wendy Carlin will explore how the pandemic could change our economic narrative, expressing new everyday understandings of how the economy works and how it should work. | Public Health Alerts in a PandemicA discussion with Imran Rasul and Elias Papaioannou Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics at London Business School and Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development was joined in conversation with Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics at University College London, to discuss how public health authorities can effectively relay information during the coronavirus pandemic. |
How will COVID-19 change the way nations govern their economies and societies?A podcast with Wendy Carlin, Gabriella Conti,Claudio Radaelli, Mike Seiferling and Jennifer Hudson. May 2020
In this podcast, our speakers will address several important issues and questions, such as: whether we will see an overarching paradigm shift in economic policymaking; what patterns of learning among policymakers we can expect; how national health systems will respond; what role civil society will play in post-lockdown life; and what new roles can we expect for international organisations, such as the WHO, the IMF and the World Bank. |
