Videos
79th Economic Policy Panel meeting - April 2024
The spring 2024 Economic Policy Panel hybrid meeting took place in Stockholm, hosted and supported by the National Bank of Belgium on 4 and 5 April. The studies on agenda focused on Artificial Intelligence and the Economy.
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The invited policy session of the 79th Economic Policy panel meeting featured Daron Acemoglu of MIT presenting new analysis of claims about the supposedly large macroeconomic implications of advances in generative artificial intelligence. Using a task-based approach to assessing AI’s effects on productivity, his study concludes that the impact on GDP is likely to be modest.
Watch a livestream of of the invited policy session.
78th Economic Policy Panel meeting - October 2023
The autumn 2023 Economic Policy Panel hybrid meeting will take place in Madrid, hosted and supported by the Banco de España on 19 and 20 October.
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The invited policy session of the 78th Economic Policy panel meeting will feature Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University presenting new evidence of China’s heavy reliance on real estate and infrastructure construction as a central part of its economic growth. The report reveals that the share of these two sectors in China’s GDP far exceeds the levels found in the United States and Europe; only Spain in the run-up to its financial crisis came close.
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77th Economic Policy Panel meeting - April 2023
The spring 2023 Economic Policy Panel hybrid meeting took place in Stockholm, hosted and supported by the Sveriges Riksbank on 20 and 21 April. The studies on agenda focused on Geoeconomics.
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The invited policy session of the 77th Economic Policy panel meeting featured Philippe Martin of Sciences Po and CEPR and Lionel Fontagne of Banque de France presenting new research on how firms respond to energy price shocks.
Watch a video of Philippe Martin discussing the report
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76th Economic Policy Panel meeting - October 2022
The autumn 2022 Economic Policy Panel hybrid meeting took place in Berlin, hosted and supported by the Federal Ministry of Finance on 20 and 21 October.
The opening session of the event featured a review of the evidence from economic research related to the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine by Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Vancouver School of Economics) & Ana Tur-Prats (University of California, Merced).
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The invited policy session of the 76th Economic Policy panel meeting featured Ricardo Reis of the London School of Economics presenting new research on inflation in the Eurozone in the second half of this year.
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75th Economic Policy Panel meeting - April 2022
The Spring 2022 Economic Policy Panel Meeting was held in Paris hosted by Direction générale du Trésor on 7 and 8 April. The papers presented focused on a variety of topics and included selected submissions for the special issue on ‘The Economics of Stereotypes, Attitudes and Discrimination’.
An online panel discussion on Covid, School Closures And Children’s Futures took place on the first day with a presentation by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln followed by a discussion with Monica Costa-Dias and Andreas Schleicher, moderated by Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor for the Financial Times.
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Watch a video with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln discussing this report
74th Economic Policy Panel meeting - October 2021
The Autumn 2021 Economic Policy Panel Meeting was held online on 21 and 22 October April with the presented papers focusing on a variety of topics.
A major new research report on Finance, money and climate change, exploring the scope and limits of green finance and the possibility of ‘greening’ monetary policies was launched at an online panel discussion, presented by Markus Brunnermeier.
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Markus Brunnermeier on the scope and limits of green finance and green monetary policy
73rd Economic Policy Panel meeting - April 2021
The Spring 2021 Economic Policy Panel Meeting was held online on 15 and 16 April and the papers presented focused on ‘The Economics of Covid-19’.
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Two new studies of the inequality effects of Covid-19 and potential policy responses were launched on Thursday 15 April during an Economic Policy panel discussion with Rana Foroohar, Stefanie Stantcheva, Ngaire Woods and Gabriel Zucman.
Learn more about “Inequalities in the Times of a Pandemic“.
Learn more about “A Wealth Tax on Giant Corporations“.
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Gabriel Zucman on a new policy proposal for burden-sharing in the post-Covid world
72nd Economic Policy Panel meeting - October 2020
At the 72nd Economic Policy Panel, an open policy panel took place with presentations by Olivier Blanchard and colleagues on their papers ‘Redesigning the EU Fiscal Rules: From Rules to Standards‘.
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Podcasts
VoxTalks Economics recorded at the 79th Economic Policy Panel Meeting
How quickly should we adopt AI?
In the second of our podcasts recorded at the 79th EP Panel, Tim Phillips asks Joshua Gans of the University of Toronto what might happen if we pauseed AI adoption, and whether we should instead accelerate adoption of AI so that we can more quickly learn about its benefits and harms, and design better regulation as a result. Listen to the podcast and read more about Gans’ paper below.
What will be the impact of AI on the labour market?
Two new papers presented at the panel meeting use the evidence from the early years of the 21st century to analyse who the winners and losers have been so far. Listen to the podcast and read more about the papers below.
Rosario Crinò,
Gino Gancia ,
Ioannis Papadakis https://www.economic-policy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ecomomic-Policy-Logo.svg Alessandra Bonfiglioli,
Rosario Crinò,
Gino Gancia ,
Ioannis Papadakis2024-03-27 13:15:572025-02-12 11:20:20AI adoption and jobs
Antonio Dias Da Silva,
Juan Francisco Jimeno,
Ana Lamo ,
Alena Wabitsch https://www.economic-policy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ecomomic-Policy-Logo.svg Stefania Albanesi,
Antonio Dias Da Silva,
Juan Francisco Jimeno,
Ana Lamo ,
Alena Wabitsch2024-03-27 12:31:492025-02-12 11:53:54AI and human labour
