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)
Brazil's Economic Resilience
Guests: Armando Castelar Pinheiro, former Head of the Economics Department of the Brazilian Development Bank and Rodrigo Soares, Professor of Economics. Insper, Brazil
The inappropriateness of imputing knowledge of victim harm onto sexually abused child sexual offenders during sentencing
Should judges impute knowledge of the long-term harm experienced by victims of child sexual abuse onto offenders who were also childhood abuse victims?
Recusal Reform: Treating a Justice’s Disqualification as a Legal Issue
What are the primary challenges and criticisms associated with the current system of Supreme Court Justices deciding their own recusal?
Can International Investment Agreements Advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
How can International Investment Agreements (IIAs) be reformed to align with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address the $4 trillion annual funding gap needed to achieve them?
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How does moral rights law, particularly the right of integrity, endanger contemporary art by enforcing outdated conceptions of art and authorship, and why does it conflict with modern artistic practices that value modification and destruction?
Production Chain Organization in the Digital Age
How does the diffusion of the internet impact downstream vertical integration and plural selling in U.S. manufacturing, as revealed by large-scale microdata and a plural governance framework?
The Role of the Banking Sector in Unraveling the Equity Premium
How does the banking sector influence risk-free bond pricing and the equity premium?
Neutral interest rate – much ado about nothing
Is the ECB’s 2% deposit rate forecast at the lower end of the range, reflecting economic concerns and a reluctance to dip below the neutral interest rate?
The Many Faces of Health Justice
How does a pluralistic concept of health justice, incorporating distinctions like active vs. passive injustice and principles like equality, priority, sufficiency, and efficiency, address multifaceted health inequities?
Business ethics: A Kantian perspective
How do concepts like trust-building, transparency, and respecting employees through fair wages and meaningful work illustrate Kantian principles in business?
The Discourse of Risk and Processes of Institutional Change
How has the dominant discourse of risk, through processes of institutional change and “risk translation,” shaped the emergence of green chemistry and its goal of replacing hazardous substances with benign alternatives to mitigate risks to human health and the environment?
Homophily: Measures and Meaning
What is homophily, and why is it considered a fundamental pattern in human relationships?
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?
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?
Modeling Neural and Perceptual Effects of Visual Cortical Stimulation: From Pulse Trains to Percepts
How does a computational model or ‘virtual patient,’ based on the neurophysiological architecture of V1, predict the perceptual experiences induced by cortical prostheses?
Anatomical and functional connectomes underlying hierarchical visual processing in mouse visual system
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?
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Quintessential Maroon
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault discusses Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity, his complex personality, and his unwavering yet gentle dedication to black liberation.
The Paths of Terrorism in Peru: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
How is the term ‘terrorism’ in Peru historically and unequivocally tied to the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL)?
War and memory in ancient Greece: Phokis, Thessaly and Persia
What were the two stratagems employed by the Phokians, as described by Herodotos, and what were the outcomes of these tactics?
Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity
How did the Neapolitan rejection of French analysis in the early 19th century shape modern mathematics and its political role?
Eating Disorders: A Practitioner’s Guide to Psychological Care
How can mental health and allied practitioners develop a more nuanced and effective understanding of the complex psychological processes underlying eating disorders?
Emerging adults’ journeys out of the shutdown
How did the return to in-person activities during the COVID-19 pandemic impact mental health, identity development, and well-being among first-year college students?
Evidence that intergenerational income mobility is the strongest predictor of drug overdose deaths in U. S. Midwest counties
What were the key findings of the study analyzing opioid overdose deaths in 1,055 U.S. Midwest counties, and how did socioeconomic factors, such as intergenerational income mobility, opioid prescription rates, and social capital, contribute to the variance in overdose death rates from 2006 to 2021?
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?
Existence theory and contemporary culture
What is ‘existence theory,’ and how does it apply existentialist philosophy to sociological theorizing?
Political economy in South Korea and Japan
How have South Korea and Japan’s political economies influenced their approaches to industrial policy and economic growth?
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
How does Black Panther Woman challenge traditional narratives about the Black Panther Party and highlight the role of spiritual wellness in political resistance?
The Black PhD Experience
What challenges and structural barriers do Black doctoral students face in UK higher education?
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.