Finance and Economics
by Cambridge University
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A series of inspirational interviews and podcasts from the Judge Business School
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A ball park figure - Professor Sam Savage | Using averages to calculate risk is leading risk management modelling astray says Professor Sam Savage. It ensures everything is behind schedule, beyond budget and below projection. Here he discusses both the problems and the "cures". | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shape of things to come - Michael Kitson | According to Michael Kitson, the recession will be deeply protracted and U-shaped, leaving permanent scars on the economy in the form of lost economic capacity. The financial sector will not fully recover to be as significant a share of the economy as it was pre-shock; the adverse effect on long-term investment will reduce productive capacity in the future and the country will not be allowed to draw in as much import as previously. The challenge, he explains, will be to produce strategies to replace this lost capacity. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being a 'good BRIC': how the rising BRIC economies can be a win-win for the global economy - Summer 2009 Quarterly Podcast - Pa | As the 'are we'/'aren't we' debate continues around Britain's early or late emergence from the global recession it is clear that the so called 'BRIC' economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are proving somewhat more resilient to the global economic downturn suffered by the Western economies. So how much can we learn from them about developing these new growing middle class markets abroad and how much do they still need our skill set in terms of their recent mergers and acquisitions? Boni Sones spoke to academics and guest speakers at Judge Business School in Cambridge to find out. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being a 'good BRIC': how the rising BRIC economies can be a win-win for the global economy - Summer 2009 Quarterly Podcast - Pa | As the 'are we'/'aren't we' debate continues around Britain's early or late emergence from the global recession it is clear that the so called 'BRIC' economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are proving somewhat more resilient to the global economic downturn suffered by the Western economies. So how much can we learn from them about developing these new growing middle class markets abroad and how much do they still need our skill set in terms of their recent mergers and acquisitions? Boni Sones spoke to academics and guest speakers at Judge Business School in Cambridge to find out. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is neo-liberalism doomed? | Is neo-liberalism doomed? Senator Yves Leterme, Former Prime Minister of Belgium, compares the Anglo-Saxon and the Rhineland models of socio-economic development. The current economic crisis, he believes, stems from an overpurification of neo-liberalism, which saw many economies move from over-regulation, to de-regulation, to self-regulation to non-regulation. The cure? A blending of the best of the Anglo-Saxon and Rhineland systems. Senator Leterme explains how. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lessons from history | Lessons from history: Could the current financial crisis have been predicted from historians' knowledge of past down turns and depressions globally? Dr David Chambers, who is Deputy Director of the Master of Finance Programme at Judge Business School and a University Lecturer in Finance, thinks so. It appears that from looking closely at what happened in the crash of the 1930s, Dr Chambers has a good grasp of how long it may take us to get out of the current financial difficulties. Structural problems, he says, need to be faced up to before a recovery is likely, and there could well be a few false dawns along that road to recovery. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healthy capital market equals healthy nation | Dr Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, explains the concept of 'naked shorting', and how he predicted as early as three years ago that the corruption of the regulator of the US capital market would lead to the systemic collapse we have now witnessed, why we need to watch the bank rescue plans and not the stimulus plans and his next predictions for the future. | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The competitive advantage and catching-up of nations | At a time when the global economic slowdown is encouraging countries and companies to introduce neo-protectionist policies - including possible moves by the new US President-elect to penalise American firms who relocate jobs outside the US - we should not ignore the efforts of smaller developing countries to catch-up, says Judge Business School's Dr Christos Pitelis. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The devil's in the details - regulating financial innovation | With elections in India in a few months, the war on terror must be squarely at the centre of the political agenda. Not far away will be regulation of finance. As Sonia Gandhi put it, the poor had nothing to do with fancy sounding financial instruments. The livelihoods of the poor are at great risk now that financial globalisation has spread the damaging effects of some types of innovative finance across the world. Dr Paul Kattuman looks at the unintended consequences of complex, unproven financial products and the lessons that need to be learnt from the crisis. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Distributing the downturn | The International Labour Organisation has forecast a rise in unemployment by 20 million world-wide, by the end of 2009. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has forecast a loss of up to 10 million jobs within the OECD group of countries, and up to 25 million jobs world-wide between 2008 and 2010. However, would a strategy of cutting wages as opposed to cutting jobs in the face of this recession create the conditions for economic recovery? Dr Paul Kattuman believes it would. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green shoots of recovery, anyone? | If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences: the maxim of the 'self fulfilling prophecy'. Forecasts that are sufficiently believed, cause people to act in ways that make the prediction come true. Forecasts about the economy can have this self-fulfilling character. Prognostications of popular media commentators on the economy form a large part of the basis of everyone's beliefs about future economic circumstances; if 2009 turns out to be a dreadful year for the economy, to a large extent it will be because people believe it will be. Dr Paul Kattuman explains the phenomenon of the way media forms beliefs and the role it is playing in driving economic behaviour. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Green New Deal | The days of easy money, easy consumption and easy debt are over, according to Ann Pettifor, Executive Director of Advocacy International, who argues that finance should be a servant to the economy, not its master. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gucci capitalism to co-operative capitalism | Dr Noreena Hertz, Associate Director of CIBAM, on why in an interconnected world an open source form of capitalism is what is required for longer term viability. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can- Winter 2008 Quarterly Podcast Part 2 | Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can. As 2008, a year that shook the world and began the restructuring of the global economies, draws to a close, we take a look at the year ahead. Which economies are likely to find it easiest to ride out the current recession and what management tools and skills should opinion formers and business leaders draw on to ensure they provide the right climate for firms to do well? Strangely, not all the news is bad news, as we have been finding out in our recent interviews with academics and associates of Judge Business School. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can- Winter 2008 Quarterly Podcast Part 1 | Can we turn adversity into opportunity? Yes, we can. As 2008, a year that shook the world and began the restructuring of the global economies, draws to a close, we take a look at the year ahead. Which economies are likely to find it easiest to ride out the current recession and what management tools and skills should opinion formers and business leaders draw on to ensure they provide the right climate for firms to do well? Strangely, not all the news is bad news, as we have been finding out in our recent interviews with academics and associates of Judge Business School. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better- Spring 2009 Quarterly Podcast Part 2 | Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becomming a global depression, and new financial measures such as 'quantitative easing' are brought in to try and stabilise markets, Judge Business School's podcast series has been talking to its academics to find out how business can best cope with the changing financial climate it now finds itself in. Boni Sones reports on this positive advice from the experts. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better- Spring 2009 Quarterly Podcast | Survival of the most adaptable- how the recession can lead to a change for the better: As the global recession sinks into becomming a global depression, and new financial measures such as 'quantitative easing' are brought in to try and stabilise markets, Judge Business School's podcast series has been talking to its academics to find out how business can best cope with the changing financial climate it now finds itself in. Boni Sones reports on this positive advice from the experts. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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