Niesr Podcast

Martin Weale, former NIESR Director, former member of the Monetary Policy and now Professor of Economics at King's College London explains why Brexit negotiations are the biggest challenge the UK economy currently faces.

Dr Monique Ebell, who has been researching the effects of different types of trade agreements have on the volumes of trade explains the advantages and disadvantages of Britain remaining part of the Customs Union with the EU.

With Britain set to trigger the start of the negotiations to exit the EU, and the Single Market, by the end of the month Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Fellow Dr Monique Ebell about her research on the effects that different types of trade agreements have on the volume of trade.

Paola Buonadonna explores the challenges facing economic statisticians attempting to capture the modern economy in a digital age in five conversations, recorded behind the scenes at the recent ONS conference. Featuring John Pullinger, UK National Statistician, Joe Grice, former Chief Economist and Chairman of the ONS Economic Experts, Prof Martin Weale, King's College London, Prof Diane Coyle, Manchester University and NIESR's Rebecca Riley, Director of the newly created Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE).

Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR researcher Nathan Hudson-Sharp about the his latest research into the use of agency workers in the public sector, the most comprehensive analysis to date. The report, co-authored with NIESR's Heather Rolfe and Johnny Runge, concludes that the staffing crisis pushes NHS staff into agency working.

Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Research Fellow Lucy Stokes about a recent report she co-authored on "Older Workers and the Workplace", for the Department of Work and Pensions. In what was the first UK study which used national representative data for private sector workplaces Lucy looked at prevalence of older workers, their satisfaction levels and their impact on productivity with interesting results ...

Behind the scenes at NIESR's Conference in honour of Martin Weale Paola Buonadonna talks to a veritable 'assumption of economists', including Jagjit Chadha, David Vines, Andrew Harvey, Mary O'Mahoney and Martin Weale. Between them, they tackle the challenges facing economic modelling, understanding financial markets and the influence of extreme events, the productivity puzzle and the problems facing the UK economy in 2017.

NIESR's Director, Prof Jagjit Chadha discusses economic forecasting with Paola Buonadonna. "Behind the numbers is a story. Our job is to understand which story did happen amongst all the alternatives"

Dr Angus Armstrong, NIESR's Director of Macroeconomics and Senior Fellow at the ESRC's 'UK in a changing Europe' Programme talks to Paola Buonadonna about the challenges and opportunities raised by the UK exit negotiations with the EU in 2017.

Heather Rolfe, NIESR's Associate Research Director talks to Paola Buonadonna about the role EU migrants play in the British economy and how British employers would cope with a reduction in their number.

Doyne Farmer, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, moderated a session on computing technology and macroeconomics at NIESR's recent "Rethinking Macroeconomics Conference". Here is a taster of what emerged in the session.

David Tuckett, Director of the Centre for Decision-Making Uncertainty at UCL, discusses the themes explored in the session covering perspectives from psychology, sociology and anthropology at NIESR's recent "Rethinking Macroeconomics Conference".

Roger Farmer, Distinguished Economics Professor at UCLA and NIESR Research Director, discusses why macroeconomics is no longer fit for purpose at the recent NIESR's "Rethinking Macroeconomic Conference".

Angus Armstrong, NIESR's Director of Macroeconomics, looks back at the issues raised by NIESR's recent Rethinking Macroeconomics Conference.

The Economist's Soumaya Keynes talks to Paola Buonadonna about the three big questions facing the world of macroeconomics, after moderating a session at our "Rethinking Macroecnomics Conference" on 29th November 2016

Journalist and author Paul Mason, was one of the keynote speakers at NIESR's recent Rethinking Macroeconomics Conference. Here he sums up what the "big questions" are.

Look Ahead 2017 is a new series of podcasts by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, discussing the events, trends and processes to watch out for in the coming year. In episode one Paola Buonadonna talks to Roger Farmer, Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at UCLA, recently appointed Research Director NIESR, about what is going to happen to globalisation.

On 29/11/16 the National Institute held a conference entitled: "Rethinking Macroeconomics" to start a discussion about what needs to be done to transform macroeconomics back into a useful policy science. Twelve panellists, divided in four sessions, explored the big questions on the horizons with the help of a very engaged audience. For this podcast NIESR's Paola Buonadonna spoke to journalist and author Paul Mason, Soumaya Keynes (The Economist), Doyne Farmer (Professor of mathematics, Oxford), David Tuckett(Director of the Centre for Decision-Making Uncertainty, UCL), macroeconomist Roger Farmer (UCL, Warwick and NIESR) and Angus Armstrong, Director of Macroeconomics at NIESR.

Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center and a prominent blogger (TheMoneyIllusion.com, Econlog). His research is in the field of monetary economics, particularly the role of the gold standard in the Great Depression, which he explored in a book entitled “The Midas Paradox” published in 2015. He has also published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Economic Inquiry. His policy work has focused on the importance of expectations, particularly the idea of using futures markets to guide monetary policy. In this seminar Sumner will argue that the Great Recession has been widely misdiagnosed, and was primarily caused by an excessively tight monetary policy by the Fed, the ECB and most other major central banks.