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Talking Economics

CERGE-EI

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Frequency: 1 episode/46d. Total Eps: 41

Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) A podcast on recent economic research and its challenges and opportunities in the changing world.

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What Really Helps Refugees Integrate into Labour Markets | Achim Ahrens

Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 27:38

In a new episode of CERGE-EI’s Talking Economics podcast, Assistant Professor Achim Ahrens discusses what economic research tells us about migration, refugees and labour market integration.

Speaking with host Katarina Stehlíková, Ahrens explains that the labour market effects of migration are far more complex than public debate often suggests. “There is no empirical consensus,” he says, noting that the impact depends on the setting, the type of workers arriving and whether the change is sudden or gradual.

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Global Uncertainty, Real Economies: A Macro Outlook | Kamil Kovář

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 • Duration 32:17

The new episode of Talking Economics brings a timely discussion with Kamil Kovář, Director at Moody’s Analytics and our alumnus, on how today’s overlapping shocks are reshaping the global economy.

Kamil explores how wars, energy disruptions, rearmament, trade fragmentation, and political unpredictability are changing the way economists think about growth, inflation, and risk. “It’s just, as you said, one shock after another, and it just doesn’t stop,” Kamil says. In this environment, he argues, economists can no longer rely on a single central outlook: “It’s more and more important to talk in terms of scenarios and not talk in terms of the baseline outlook only.”

The episode examines what has changed most fundamentally in the global economy, what the most likely path forward may be, and which alternative scenarios matter most. Kamil also reflects on how recent crises have exposed the limits of traditional models, noting that “the distribution has widened so much” that one or two scenarios are no longer enough to capture the risks economies face.

This episode offers a guide to understanding the macroeconomic landscape in a period marked by constant disruption.

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Talking Economics Emerging Scholars: Margarita Pavlova

Thursday, March 26, 2026 • Duration 24:04

Our job market candidate Margarita Pavlova is the latest guest in the Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars podcast series, which highlights the research and career journeys of CERGE-EI PhD in Economics candidates and recent graduates.

Margarita is an applied microeconomist specializing in labor and gender economics. Her research explores how macroeconomic conditions, labor market policies, and institutions shape labor market outcomes—especially the long-term effects of economic shocks, wage setting, and labor market inequality. In her job market paper, Margarita studies how business-cycle conditions at the time of labor market entry shape early-career trajectories and how these effects evolve over time.

00:00 Introduction

01:15 Why economic research

04:35 Challenges during Covid

07:00 Visiting Yale

08:34 Graduates in a cycle, graduating in a recession

14:07 Women in the labor market

19:29 Competition and the gender pay gap

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Talking Economics Emerging Scholars: Sona Badalyan

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 • Duration 20:45

The Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars podcast series highlights the research and career journeys of CERGE-EI PhD in Economics candidates and recent graduates. In this episode, we speak with Sona Badalyan, one of our current job market candidates.

Sona is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor, public, and personnel economics. Her job market paper examines internal labor markets, exploring how firm organization, labor market institutions, and frictions shape outcomes for workers and firms in an aging economy.

00:00 Introduction

01:20 Path to a PhD decision

05:10 Challenges and mobility stays

08:06 Motivation for a dissertation topic

08:53 Intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

15:30 Old-age employment and organizational structures

17:50 Peer Effects in old-age employment

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The Economics of Discrimination with Vojtěch Bartoš

Monday, October 27, 2025 • Duration 35:10

Why does discrimination persist even when it’s costly for firms and societies? CERGE-EI alumnus and Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Vojtěch Bartoš, explains how behavioral economics helps uncover the mechanisms behind bias — and how evidence-based tools can help reduce it.

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Matching Matters: The Hidden Economics of Who Works Where with Luca Mazzone

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 • Duration 32:53

What happens when the labor market doesn’t match workers and firms efficiently? Can online platforms and better data solve the problem? And what role do families play in shaping the workforce of tomorrow?

Luca Mazzone, Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI and Economist at the IMF, talks about the hidden dynamics behind wage inequality, employment policy, and how households shape labor market outcomes. His research looks into how people and firms find each other—and why this matching process matters for productivity, inequality, and growth.

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Marta Cota: Household Financial Choices

Thursday, June 19, 2025 • Duration 26:40

What determines the financial decisions we make throughout our lives—like choosing a mortgage, saving for retirement, or deciding whether to invest? In the latest episode of Talking Economics, we explore these questions with Marta Cota, a CERGE-EI PhD alumna and Assistant Professor of Finance at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.

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Vladimír Novák: Polarization, Policy, and Structural Challenges

Friday, May 16, 2025 • Duration 24:32

In the latest episode of Talking Economics, we speak with Vladimír Novák, Senior Economist at the National Bank of Slovakia and CERGE-EI PhD alumnus, about his recent research and how it connects to real-world policy challenges. Vladimír’s academic work focuses on how individuals process information—and how that, in turn, shapes their beliefs, decisions, and broader societal outcomes.

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Ctirad Slavík: Taxation, Wages, and Growth

Thursday, February 27, 2025 • Duration 27:14

Associate Professor at CERGE-EI, Ctirad Slavík, discusses taxation, inequality, and the economic impact of policy reforms in our latest episode. He shares insights on optimal capital taxation, the effects of automation on wages, and the 2021 Czech income tax reform.

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Talking Economics Emerging Scholars: Theodor Kouro

Thursday, January 9, 2025 • Duration 36:49

Our next guest on the Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars series is Theodor Kouro, one of CERGE-EI’s job market candidates this year.

Theo’s research spans behavioral, experimental, and development economics, with a particular focus on gender economics. In his job market paper, he explores the mechanics of autonomy in a large-scale natural field experiment on effort provision. This paper earned him the 2023 Young Economist of the Czech Republic award.

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