Is Oxytocin “Nature’s Medicine”?
What is the significance of oxytocin, and why is it considered a crucial molecule for health, behavior, and adaptation?
Induction of Social Contagion
What is social contagion? How does friendship-nomination targeting enhance the spread of health education and behaviors in social networks?
Diversity and Social Mobility in the UK legal profession
I. Stephanie Boyce provides a current snapshot of diversity within the UK legal profession and how to drive inclusion going forward.
Olivier Blanchard on U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation
Olivier Blanchard discusses the direct and indirect effects of product-market and labor-market shocks on prices and nominal wages. Professor Blanchard suggests most of the inflation surge that began in 2021 was the result of shocks to prices given wages, including sharp increases in commodity prices and sectoral shortages. However, the effects of overheated labor markets on nominal wage growth and inflation are more persistent than the effects of product-market shocks.
The Exchange
The Exchange unites global leaders from policy, industry, research, and government for discussions on today's most pressing issues.
Climate Change and Trade
Guests: Ralph Ossa, Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research, World Trade Organisation and Piers Forster, Chair, UK Climate Change Committee
China in Focus
Guests: Dan Wang, former-Chief Economist Hang Seng Bank and Yang Yao, Director of China Center and Dean of National School of Development at Peking University.
UK Inflation, Growth, and Trust
Guests: Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London, former member of the Bank of England MPC and Dame Deanne Julius, Chatham House, founding member of the MPC.
Japan in Focus
Guests: Charles Yuji Horioka, Professor at the Center for Social Systems Innovation at Kobe University and Shujiro Urata, Shujiro Urata is Chairman of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Against Moral Rights
How does moral rights law, particularly the right of integrity, endanger contemporary art by enforcing outdated conceptions of art and authorship, and why does it conflict with modern artistic practices that value modification and destruction?
Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools
How can law school rankings be improved to reflect students’ actual preferences?
Complexity, Evidence and Law
How does complexity theory and the concept of complex adaptive systems transform the understanding of the law of evidence and the nature of the American legal system?
China’s Foreign State Immunity Law: A View from the United States
What are the key provisions of China’s Foreign State Immunity Law (FSIL) and how does it compare to the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)?
Tackling Tax Evasion via Ghost Firms: Insights from Ecuador
How do ghost firms contribute to tax evasion, and what insights does transaction-level tax data from Ecuador provide about their prevalence and impact?
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks
How do skill transferability and local industry mix influence worker adjustment costs after a trade shock?
Women legislators and economic performance
How has the global increase in the proportion of women in politics over the past two decades influenced economic performance, particularly in India’s state assemblies?
HiSCoD: a new gateway for the study of historical social conflict
What is the primary purpose of the Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD)?
Promotion decisions and the adoption of explicit potential assessment
How effective are potential assessments in performance management systems at identifying promotable candidates, and does supervisor evaluation quality contribute to the Peter Principle?
Confidence calibration in a multi-year geopolitical forecasting competition
In what ways does research explore the development of confidence and accuracy over time in forecasting?
Transparency about lagging diversity numbers signals genuine progress
Does transparency about lagging diversity numbers, despite being counterintuitive to conventional wisdom, actually enhance perceptions of commitment, progress, and trustworthiness in organizations?
Peak sales time prediction in new product sales
How can managers predict the peak sales time (T*) for new products more accurately using limited sales data?
Currency Management by International Fixed-Income Mutual Funds
How do U.S. international fixed-income funds manage currency risk, and what impact does hedging have on return variability and abnormal returns?
ESG Disclosures in the Private Equity Industry
What does the evidence reveal about the trends, determinants, and impact of ESG disclosures by private equity firms globally?
Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection
How effective are emissions trading systems are at reducing carbon emissions and boosting renewable energy usage globally?
The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds
How does impact investing fare in balancing financial returns with social or environmental goals, and what are its implications on investment risk profiles and strategies?
Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California
How does the study of mid-century modern architecture in California between 1920 and 1970 reveal the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of its key practitioners?
Architectures of the Technopolis
How do the works of Archigram and British High-Tech architects compare thematically, and what does their shared historical and cultural context in London reveal about the common influences?
Connecting Cities and Nature
How can integrating nature into urban environments enhance the well-being of city dwellers and contribute to more sustainable cities? Explore this concept through the lens of Biophilic Cities, which utilizes a network of global cities, scholars, and advocates to reveal the profound impacts of nature in urban areas on human health and urban resilience.
Cities and Rivers
How can architecture move beyond iconic buildings to create holistic, culturally-informed solutions that transform landscapes and everyday experiences?
Anatomical and physiological characteristics of claustrum neurons in primates and rodents
Why is the claustrum considered one of the least understood structures in the mammalian nervous system despite its extensive connectivity and involvement in high-cognitive processes
Is Oxytocin “Nature’s Medicine”?
What is the significance of oxytocin, and why is it considered a crucial molecule for health, behavior, and adaptation?
Software Testing of Generative AI Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
How can we ensure the quality and safety of generative AI systems when traditional software testing techniques fall short?
Molecularly porous cross-linked membranes
Molecularly porous cross-linked membranes are advanced materials designed with highly defined pore structures at the molecular level, allowing for selective separation and filtration processes.
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte, and how did his determination, intelligence, and ambition drive France to conquer Europe
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
What is the history and ecological complexity of malaria in Ethiopia, and why does its persistence require a comprehensive understanding of local dynamics and human-environment interactions?
Planet in Peril
What are the top four mega-dangers threatening humanity, and how can we address them?
Intoxicating Pleasures
How did alcohol’s cultural reinvention after the repeal of U.S. Prohibition in 1933 transform wine, beer, and whiskey into symbols of the American good life?
Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup
Under what conditions does “ingroup love” turn into “outgroup hate,” particularly when group membership is based on moral (dis)similarity?
Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
What is clinical supervision, and why is it important for mental health professionals?
Affective Memory
How does affective response influence the encoding, updating, and retrieval of episodic memories, and what neural mechanisms underlie these processes?
Spencer’s Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST)
What is the origin and scholarly impact of Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s PVEST, and how does it integrate phenomenology?
China’s left-behind children: Parenting, caretaking, and struggles
How has the unprecedented rural-to-urban migration in China over the past three decades impacted the psychological well-being, family dynamics, and educational outcomes of “left-behind” children?
The construction of the sacred through photographs displayed in Latin American homes
How does the practice of displaying pictures at home serve as a form of sacralization?
She Still Works Hard for the Money: Composers, Precarious Work, and the Gender Pay Gap
How does the gender pay gap manifest among music composers, who exemplify precarious work through their historical reliance on freelancing and multiple jobs to support their creative endeavors?
Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States
How do weather extremes influence undocumented migration between Mexico and the United States, and what are the impacts on the decisions of these migrants to return?