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380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …
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sectoral World Input Output Database (WIOD) to predict the impact of Brexit for every individual EU country by aggregating up … the country-sector effects. In contrast to other studies, we find EU-27 job losses to be substantially higher than … hitherto believed as a result of the closely integrated EU network structure. Upstream country-sectors stand to lose more from …
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Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has featured prominently in the policy debate over Brexit. We first review the facts, noting the overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance. We then introduce some...
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive … after the EU referendum. Finally, within a theoretical framework we conceptualize an omitted variable bias arising in …
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-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK’s largest household survey, which includes the EU … fallacy. In addition, we show that prediction accuracy is geographically heterogeneous across UK regions, with strongly pro …
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acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with …
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This chapter looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …
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the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic …
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We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
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