Media, Popular Writings & Public Lectures
VoxEU Ebook on the economic consequences of the 2nd Trump Administration
Chapter on the European defense response
June 2025
Politico interviewed me on the European military buildup
May 19 2025
Macro Musings Podcast mentions my "Learning by Necessity" research.
April 23 2025
Public Sphere podcast interviews my about the international monetary system
Deutsche Welle interviews me about EU military buildup.
March 16 2025
Wall Street Journal mentions "Guns and Growth".
March 13 2025
Taggeszeitung mentions "Guns and Growth".
March 13 2025
Times mentions "Guns and Growth".
March 16 2025
CNN/WENY asks me about the economics of national defense and cites "Guns and Growth"
March 6, 2025
Planet Money Indicator podcast interviews me about the European defense buildup and public debt
Feb 27 2025
Times discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
The week that was in Europe podcast discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 21 2025
Expresso mentions my articles "Guns and Growth" and "Learning by Necessity"
Feb 21 2025
Handelsblatt discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 20 2025
Bruegel analysis cites my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 20 2025
Mercur.de discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 20 2025
ZdF discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 19 2025
Politico Newsletter references my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 18 2025
Tagesspiegel discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 13 2025
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger discusses my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 13 2025
Frankfurter Rundschau cites my article "Guns and Growth"
Feb 12 2025
Economic Report of the President 2025 cites Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff (2019).
Financial Times Survey of top 101 UK economists
Jan 2 2025
Bloomberg interviews me on exchange rate regimes
Nov 14 2024
BBC Verify asks me about UK public debt
March 20 2024
Telegraph cites me on public debt
Feb 3 2024
and again here, and once again here.
UK in a Changing EU Conference: From Research to Policy. I talk about the UK Macro framework.
See my written report here.
Jan 31 2024
Financial Times Survey of top 101 UK economists
Jan 2 2023
Sky News asks me whether higher public sector pay would lead to inflation.
Jan 4 2023
Financial Times Survey of top 101 UK economists
Jan 3 2023
Macro Musings Podcast, Interview on the UK crisis, the strong $, fiscal policy and inflation, and monetary policy shocks
Nov 2022
Euronews: Autumn statement: Hunt strives to play up UK's performance as he sets out austere budget
I talk about the autumn statement and Brexit.
17 Nov 22
Note on the UK Fiscal Crisis of 2022
Ethan Ilzetzki, Oct 2022
GB News: Interview about the UK economy
Oct 19, 2022
Le Temps (Swiss Newspaper): Interview about the UK economy
Oct 8, 2022
RSI (Swiss TV): Interview about the UK economy
Oct 8, 2022
Metro Online: After 14 years of misery, UK facing another 2008-style crisis
Interview ith Sean Seddon, Oct 2, 2022
ORF (Austrian radio): interview on "mini-Budget"
Sep 23, 2022
New York Times: quotes me on the new UK currency.
September 9, 2022
Jackson Hole discussion of "Inflation as a Fiscal Limit" by Bianchi and Melosi.
August 2022
ZDF (German television): interview on inflation in the UK.
August 2022
CNN: Two vie to replace Boris Johnson. Neither has 'a true plan' to fix its ailing economy
Anna Cooban, July 24, 2022
LSE Explainer on inflation and interest rates
July, 2022
Guardian: I'm quoted on ERC research funding and Brexit
Lisa O'Carroll, 25 April 2022
Bloomberg Radio: Interview about Chancellor's Spring Statement (UK Budget) (minute 16)
March 23, 2022
BBC News (TV): Interview about the UK Cost of Living Crisis
February 12, 2022
FT: The Poisoned Chalice of the Fed Chair Job
John Plender, Nov 26, 2021
GWG - ECFIN - JRC Conference on the "Assessment of Output Gaps and Potential Output in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath". Slides
Macro Musings Podcast, Interview on the euro, exchange rate volatility & inflation prospects
Dec 2020
Newsweek: The World Is $277 Trillion in Debt So Why Aren't Economists More Worried?
Alex Hudson, Nov 24, 2020
Guardian: Exchange rates have been stable in the Covid crisis.
Ken Rogoff, Nov 16, 2020
Project Syndicate: The Calm Before the Exchange Rate Storm,
Ken Rogoff, Nov 10, 2020
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity,
Presentation, Sep 24, 2020
Times: Video explainer on public debt
July 8, 2020
Guardian: How worrying is Britain's debt? Surprisingly, we economists say: not very
Op ed, June 2020
Les Echos: L'internationalisation de l'euro toujours au point mort,
Nessim Aït-Kacimi, Jun 10, 2020
VoxEU: Ramping up ventilator production: Lessons from WWII
Article, April 2020, (with Hugo Reichardt)
FT: Europe First: taking on the dominance of the US dollar
Martin Sandbu, Dec 5, 2019.
FT: What the ECB Bashers Get Wrong,
Martin Sandbu, Nov 7, 2019
IMF Annual Research Conference:
Discussion on public debt and r<g around minute 55, November 2019
FT: China's currency will not replace the US dollar,
Colby Smith, Sep 19, 2019
Globes
Interview, Jan 2018 (in Hebrew)
Les Echos: La productivité, ça se cultive,
Jean-Marc Vittori, 25 Sep 2017
Macro Musings podcast, May 2017
Times cites Ilzetzki, Reinhart, Rogoff (2019)
Economist: Donald Trump and the Dollar Standard,
Free Exchange, Feb 9, 2017.
Invstr Video on fiscal policy, Nov 2016
CfM Public Lecture: Fiscal Policy During Recessions and Recoveries, LSE Feb 2014
LSE US Centre Blog on the Affordable Care Act, 2013
BBC: Interview, September 2012
Mar 2012
New York Times: Vector Autoregressions and Keynesian Macro
Paul Krugman (blog post) Oct 17, 2011
Economist: Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking
Buttonwood, Aug 11, 2011
CNN: Debt deal: No cause for celebration
Op Ed, Aug 1, 2011
Econbroser: Multiplier estimates, across countries, across states, across time
July, 2011
Irish Independent: State stimuli won't work without fall in interest rates, says research
Brendan Keenan, Dec 16, 2010
Wall Street Journal: Why the Spending Stimulus Failed
Michael Boskin, Dec 1, 2010
New York Times: The Two Cultures
David Brooks, Nov 15, 2010
American Enterprise Institute: Government Response to Financial Crisis,
Presentation, Oct 2009
A Victory for Mudell-Flemming
Greg Mankiw, blog post, Oct 5, 2009
New York Times: Multiplying Multipliers
Paul Krugman (blog post) Oct 1, 2009