CB On Air Podcasts
Podcast: Boston Fed backs community action on Covid-19 and racial inequality
Working Cities Challenge is not only helping economic resurgence in struggling cities, but also fostering better responses to Covid-19 and racial inequality, official explains
Podcast: An interdisciplinary approach to Covid-19 surveying
FedSpeak talks with the Minneapolis Fed’s Abigail Wozniak on her new real-time survey combining social science and epidemiology
Podcast: adapting economic education for demographics and fintech
St Louis Fed’s Mary Suiter discusses the reserve bank’s new programme for Native American economic education
Podcast: inside Brazil’s new instant payment system
New system seeks to boost financial inclusion with coverage of accounts and mandatory participation
Podcast: Bank of Finland’s Aleksi Grym on a 1990s’ digital currency
Avant was launched to establish a new payments network but failed due to competition from ATMs
Podcast: fintech predictions for 2020
Will cloud technology become mainstream? Is artificial intelligence the future of regulation? Rachael King and Adam Csabay make their fintech predictions for 2020 in the second episode of Tech Talk
Podcast: Central Banking launches Tech Talk series
In the inaugural episode, Rachael King and Adam Csabay cast a critical eye over some of the biggest fintech developments of 2019
Podcast: North Macedonia on the brink of change
New central bank governor is determined to put her own stamp on an institution preparing for change, as the country looks to enter the EU
Podcast: Greg Kaplan on heterogeneous-agent models
Monetary and fiscal policy are much more closely connected than many central banks would like
Podcast: Bank of Israel’s Flug reflects on her time as governor
Former IMF economist talks about how her love of policy helped her lead Israel’s central bank
Podcast: Iceland removes gender bias from wages
Katrín Ólafsdóttir, MPC member at the Central Bank of Iceland, says equal pay certification will encourage women to enter the economics profession
Podcast: Gender targets – friend or foe?
Officials from the ECB explain why gender targets, though controversial, are necessary to close the gender gap at central banks
Podcast: How to fight the next crisis
In the last of the series, Yale’s Andrew Metrick warns we may be less prepared for crisis-fighting now than we were before 2008
Podcast: Preventative measures
Many central banks currently lack a key power that could help them deal with crises, argues Yale University’s Andrew Metrick
Podcast: The global regulatory landscape
Capital rules have made the core banking system safer, but other parts of the system may still be at risk, says Andrew Metrick
Podcast: More women, greater stability?
Recent research from the International Monetary Fund reveals the inclusion of women in supervisory roles has a significant impact on financial stability
Podcast: Post-crisis monetary policy
Many things behave like money in the modern economy and central banks have not yet figured out how to control them all, says Andrew Metrick
Podcast: Crisis lessons
Central banks may have learned the lessons of the crisis, but are they fully on top of the risks?
Podcast: The post-crisis world
Andrew Metrick says central banks have changed dramatically since 2008, but more work may be needed to develop new models
Podcast series: central banking in the post-crisis world
In a new series, Central Banking speaks to Yale’s Andrew Metrick about how the discipline has changed over the past decade
Podcast: Are women better risk managers?
Rachael King speaks with senior portfolio manager Vaithegi Naidu to find out why women are attracted to reserve management
Podcast: Arthur Turrell on agent-based modelling
The Bank of England economist says ABMs should complement, not replace, other models
Podcast: Croatia’s Željka Majher says central banks should set diversity goals
Director of HR at the Croatian National Bank is against numerical gender targets, but says a diversity goal could help increase the pool of candidates central banks hire from
Podcast: David Hendry and John Muellbauer on empirical macro
The econometricians cast a sceptical eye over DSGE models and weigh up some alternatives