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At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...
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. Understanding these movements gives a better understanding Brexit's potential effects …
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new and ambitious trade agreements following Brexit, but has not been explicit what type of trade agreements it envisions … line with existing studies, that the negative trade consequences of Brexit are substantial, especially for the UK and also … the negative trade consequences of Brexit …
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On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
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Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The …
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Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as … the current literature on Brexit suggests. Up until 2010, the UK's welfare state evened out growing income differences …
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as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that …
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them as neighbours and, most importantly, to vote for Brexit. The fear of immigration does not seem to be fully justified … exchange to poll numbers we find that investors appear to view Brexit as a negative event …
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in the European Union as heralded by the Brexit …
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This paper proposes a new panel data structural gravity approach for estimating the trade and welfare effects of Brexit … different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are … likely to decline within a range between 7.2% and 45.7% (5.9% and 38.2%) six years after the Brexit has taken place. For the …
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