{"podcast":{"title":"The Sound of Economics","slug":"the-sound-of-economics-1025540","podcast_index_feed_id":1025540,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4903959.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4903959","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/40566693/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.png","author":"Bruegel","episode_count":466,"summary":"The Sound of Economics brings you insights, debates, and research-based discussions on economic policy in Europe and beyond. The podcast is produced by Bruegel, an independent and non-doctrinal think tank based in Brussels. It seeks to contribute to European and global economic policy-making through open, fact-based, and policy-relevant research, analysis, and debate.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T18:20:26.391725+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-of-economics-1025540"},"episode":{"title":"China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalance","slug":"china-s-yuan-and-europe-s-industry-a-growing-imbalance","published_at":"2026-01-21T11:36:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-of-economics-1025540/china-s-yuan-and-europe-s-industry-a-growing-imbalance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-of-economics-1025540","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8837528","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8837528.mp3?modified=1768996040&sid=4903959&source=rss","summary":"In this episode of The Sound of Economics , host Yuyun Zhan is joined by Bruegel Senior Fellow Alicia García-Herrero and Jürgen Matthes of the German Economic Institute to discuss a growing concern for Europe’s economy: the undervaluation of Yuan, the Chinese currency and its impact on European competitiveness. Is China’s price advantage the result of productivity and innovation, or of deeper structural distortions such as subsidies, overcapacity, and currency management? And what policy options does Europe realistically have when existing trade defence instruments seem ill-suited to address economy-wide price and exchange-rate effects? Relevant research: Matthes, Jürgen, 2025, Yuan Undervaluation against the Euro: Unfair Cost Advantages for China?! , IW-Report, Nr. 36, Köln García-Herrero, A., T. Storella and J. Xu (2025) ‘ European companies operating in China: from digging in to rethinking their presence ’, Working Paper 14/2025, Bruegel This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly analysis of China in the world, as seen from Europe. Sign up now to receive it in your mailbox!","meta_description":"In this episode of The Sound of Economics , host Yuyun Zhan is joined by Bruegel Senior Fellow Alicia García-Herrero and Jürgen Matthes of the German Econ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2583,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-of-economics-1025540/episodes/china-s-yuan-and-europe-s-industry-a-growing-imbalance/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-of-economics-1025540/china-s-yuan-and-europe-s-industry-a-growing-imbalance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}