VoxEU Videos

The end of men

• Nir Jaimovich

The likelihood of college-educated women finding high-paid employment has risen, while for men it has fallen. Is a growing demand for social skills behind this?

Deaths of despair

• Anne Case

Anne Case traces the rise in 'deaths of despair' in the US back to stagnating wages and the contracting out by firms of low-skilled jobs to avoid high health insurance costs.

Raising money for the state

• Dina Pomeranz

Evidence from Chile shows how the value-added tax (VAT) can facilitate tax enforcement by generating paper trails on transactions between firms.

What caused the U.S. housing crisis?

• Antoinette Schoar

Understanding the origins of the American housing crisis of 2007 has been a challenge for economists and policy makers.

What caused the US housing crisis?

• Antoinette Schoar

The local impacts of global investment flows

While policymakers go the extra mile to try to attract investments, they often hold serious misconceptions about the impact of multinationals

Trade and the Single Market after Brexit

• Angus Armstrong

The EU is the UK’s biggest trade partner; in this video Angus Armstrong discusses the impact of Brexit on the UK’s trade patterns.

Fintech and consumer finance

• Antoinette Schoar

Managing with style

• Antoinette Schoar

"It’s not too far of a stretch to think that there’s a correlation between style and performance."

Simplifying the field of economics

• Marianne Bertrand

Marianne Bertrand talks about the importance of making economics accessible to the general population

The best way to measure inequality

• James Galbraith

James K. Galbraith argues that payroll data represent a more widely available and consistent measure of inequality than survey-based or tax-based measures.

Foreign investment and economic growth

• Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan

Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan discusses foreign direct investment and how local conditions can limit a country's capacity to take advantage of spillovers from the investment.