Can economics help fight climate change?
Beatrice Weder di Mauro shares her work on carbon taxation and inflation, how central banks are measuring climate risk, and the role of monetary policy when it comes to fighting the climate crisis. Sources can be found at: ubs.com/WIE.
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German Constitutional Court dropped a bomb: what are the consequences for the EU?
On 5 May 2020, the German Constitutional Court declared that the bond-buying programme of the European Central Bank was ultra vires (exceeding its competences) and therefore, explicitly challenged the authority of the European Court of Justice. Joseph Weiler, University Professor at NYU School of L…
Why are there so few female economists?
Economists Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Jean Tirole and Hélène Rey kick off Women in Economics by uncovering the field's gender problem. They explain how economics can help us better understand the world and why gender diversity can lead to new discoveries. Sources can be found at: ubs.com/WIE.
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Managing the What Ifs: Europe, China and world trade
In a world of increasing uncertainties, the European Union’s need to protect itself from new shocks is on the rise. Pandemic-related supply disruptions, the energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and economic coercion coming from China have all shown that the EU needs to do more t…
Ask the ECB Forum: defence, tariffs and AI – insights from top experts
Can an increase in defence spending affect investments in green energy and digital infrastructure? What do US tariff threats mean for the ECB? How does the ECB support smaller countries in the Eurosystem? And is AI an opportunity or a risk for the financial future?
In the last episode of our Sintr…
S9 Ep24: Stablecoins and Global Imbalances
A radical macroeconomic experiment is under way at exactly the moment the US external position is showing signs of real stress.
Gilles Moëc, Chief Economist at AXA, has written a chapter in the fourth Paris Report, published jointly by CEPR and Bruegel, on stablecoins: what they are, why the US g…
S9 Ep23: Global imbalances redux
Three times since the 1970s, global imbalances have grown large. In the 1980s, the US trade deficit ballooned under Volcker's tight money and Reagan's tax cuts and military spending. In the 2000s, a global savings glut and then a US housing credit boom pushed the deficit to 6% of GDP. Today, the …
S9 Ep25: Rebalancing the Chinese economy
In 2003, Premier Wen Jiabao warned that China's growth model was unbalanced between supply and demand, over-reliant on investment and exports. More than 20 years later, the imbalance is smaller — but China is vastly larger. What its economy produces and exports now moves global markets. The argum…
S9 Ep39: Europe in 2050
Recorded at the Paris School of Economics-CEPR Policy Forum 2026. Europe is under attack from the US, and under a different kind of attack from China.
That is Olivier Blanchard's diagnosis. Blanchard (MIT, Paris School of Economics, Peterson Institute) is one of four economists leading Europe 205…
What’s threatening financial stability?
In this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Rebecca Christie discusses financial stability with Bruegel Director Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Olaf Sleijpen, President of De Nederlandsche Bank and a member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council. What are the risks? How much should we …
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