Michael Woodford of Columbia University discusses how limitations to the accuracy of memory are likely to be a very significant source of bias which affects the way people's beliefs and behaviour respond to changes in their cirumstances.
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Linda Goldberg 26 February 2019
Linda Goldberg of the Federal Reserve of New York talks about her work with Signe Krogstrup on a combined exchange market pressure index, which they use to look at the importance of the global factor in international flows.
Marco Di Cataldo, Riccardo Crescenzi, Mara Giua 22 February 2019
Marco di Cataldo, Riccardo Crescenzi and Mara Giua from the Global Investment - Local Development research team at LSE explore the various policy tools available to local decision-makers to attract foreign investments, and most importantly, to make the most of them.
Judith A. Chevalier 18 February 2019
Judy Chevalier from Yale School of Management asks whether flexibility provides benefits to gig workers, based on data collected from 200,000 Uber drivers over a 9-month period.
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan 13 February 2019
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan of the University of Maryland talks about debt overhang as a big contributor to the low investment that persists in Europe ten years after the crisis, and why a big data approach is the best way to solve the problem.
Hélène Rey 11 February 2019
Hélène Rey of London Business School argues that the free movement of money around the world brings benefits but also costs, in an interview recorded at the Royal Economic Society conference in 2014.
Susan Dynarski 06 February 2019
Susan Dynarski of the University of Michigan discusses how a pilot scheme promising low-income high-school students four years of free tuition and fees if they were accepted on a university course more than doubled application rates.
Meredith Crowley 01 February 2019
Meredith Crowley, International Trade Economist at the University of Cambridge, looks at the US response to Brexit.
28 January 2019
This video summarises the ZEW Lunch Debate "Beyond Horizon 2020: Translating Public Research into Innovation".
Janet Currie 24 January 2019
Janet Currie of Princeton University discusses how increasing access to health care prenatally and in early childhood reduces deaths and leads to long-term improvements in child and young adult outcomes.