The Beverage Report Podcast

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Prof. Jan Toporowski, former Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS. How do government debt management, monetary policy, and financial systems shape economic stability and crises in today’s economy? To what extent are macroeconomic outcomes shaped by the interests and influence of dominant economic actors? What long-term impacts do d...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Prof. Eric Schneider, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. What kinds of resources are most effective in helping children reach their full growth potential? How can researchers analyse data across different countries and time periods when record-keeping practices vary so widely? Why is it...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Prof. Isabela Manelici, Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Why do governments compete so fiercely to attract multinational firms? Do foreign multinationals actually raise productivity of domestic suppliers and worker welfare, or do the gains fall short of expectations? How Responsibl...

In today’s episode of The Beverage Report, we are interviewing Professor Janet Currie, one of the world’s leading economists on child wellbeing and health policy. How do early-life conditions shape long-term health and opportunity? Why aren’t more families able to access social welfare programs designed to support them? What can we learn about inequality by studying children’s health, medication u...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview a leading philosopher and economist, Prof. Erik Angner. How does a philosophy and economics background shape perspective? Is it important for everyone to be made aware of basic economics to deal with the world's problems? How can we interpret happiness and the data that comes with it? Throughout the discussion Prof. Erik Angner explo...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview a leading economic researcher and advisor, Dr Gopi Shah Goda. Are insurance markets are inherently persistently inefficient? How can governments adapt policies to accommodate an ageing population? Are we still experiencing persistent reductions in labour supply due to COVID-19? Throughout the discussion Dr Goda references her extensive c...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview a leading expert on financial risk and the transformative role of artificial intelligence in the financial system and also one of our very own finance professors, Professor Jon Danielsson. How is AI reshaping the private financial sector, and what are the ethical dilemmas and risks it introduces, such as pro-cyclicality and market instab...

In this episode of The Beverage Report Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Monica de Bolle, a distinguished economist with a remarkable journey. From her early exposure to economics through her father’s career at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance and then later the IMF to her PHD at LSE and later research in infectious diseases, Dr. De Bolle’s story offers a unique perspective on the interplay of econom...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor Christopher Rauh, Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge, Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Institute of Labor Economics. How do parental beliefs affect the returns to educational and health investment in c...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus of Economics at UC Berkeley, former chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics, and the celebrated author of Charaiveti and A World of Insecurity.  What impact does the rise of populism have on global development? How does economic policy shape democracies? And what can we learn from...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Dr Jonathon Hazell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the LSE. How can we overcome estimation issues to evaluate the slope of the Phillips curve?  What can previous periods of hyperinflation teach us, when looking to control high levels of inflation post-COVID?  How do behavioural factors influence the wage rigidity o...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-director of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Labor Studies Program. What happens when automation and AI reshape the labour market? Can the rise of China as an economic powerhouse...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and co-director of the Reimagining the Economy Program at the Kennedy School and of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity network. Can a new approach to industrial policy and economic nationalism help nat...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Dr. Carl Singleton, Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Stirling and Research Fellow Institute of Labour Economics. What is Sports Economics and what direction is this field taking? What is the legacy of the Cold War on referee bias in international football today? How can market failures in football prevent the best talent...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor Camille Landais, Professor of Economics & Director of STICERD at the LSE. What is the child penalty and how come even countries at similar levels of development, such as Scandinavian and German-speaking countries, demonstrate large variations? Why is inheritance taxation an unpopular concept, and how could the current syste...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor David Luke, Professor in Practice and Strategic Director at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the LSE. How does the AfCFTA change the current trade regimes in place in Africa? Is rapid growth we have seen in sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades indeed not sustainable due to "poor prospects for industrialisation"...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Professor Keyu Jin, Associate Professor of Economics at the LSE Department of Economics & author of the new book 'The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism'. What are the West's biggest misconceptions about China? How has the one-child policy impacted policy regulations and aggregate household savings? What...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Baroness Dambisa Moyo, a member of the House of Lords serving on a number of corporate boards, with a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Master's degree from Harvard University! How might geopolitical instability mould the landscape of investment opportunities? In what ways might AI impact growth and human developm...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, Raza Rasool interviews Professor Matthias Doepke, our very own Professor of Economics at the LSE Department of Economics! Professor Doepke shares his insights on various topics within the field of family economics. Do parenting decisions influence inequality? What is Scandinavian-style parenting? How is fertility related to income? Professor Doepke a...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, Raza Rasool interviews Professor Imran Rasul, a professor of economics at University College London and co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Professor Rasul shares his insights on various topics in labour, development and public economics, such as inequality, vocational trainin...

In this episode of the Beverage Report podcast, we resume our conversation with Asli Demirguc-Kunt, a Turkish economist and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Asli is a former chief economist of the Europe and Central Asia Region of The World Bank, where she also served as the Director of Research, Director of Development Policy, and the Chief Economist of the Finance and...

In this episode of the Beverage Report podcast, we are honored to have a conversation with Asli Demirguc-Kunt, a Turkish economist and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Asli is a former chief economist of the Europe and Central Asia Region of The World Bank, where she also served as the Director of Research, Director of Development Policy, and the Chief Economist of the F...

In this episode of the LSE Beverage Report podcast, we continue our conversation with Sir Oliver Hart, a British-born American economist and Nobel laureate. Sir Oliver is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, and one of the leading experts on contract theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016, together with Bengt Holmström, for his c...

In this episode of the LSE Beverage Report podcast, we are delighted to have a conversation with Sir Oliver Hart, a British-born American economist and Nobel laureate. Sir Oliver is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, and one of the leading experts on contract theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016, together with Bengt Holmström...

In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we're joined by Professor Leah Boustan, an economic historian at Princeton University. Professor Boustan is the author of two books, Competition in the Promised Land and Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. In our conversation, we discuss the Great Migration, white flight, and the impact of immigration on the American...