Im Rahmen des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ im Februar 2017 wurden Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten zu ihren Erwartungen für die anstehenden Brexit-Verhandlungen sowie im Hinblick auf die zukünftige Handelspolitik der EU und dem Vereinigten Königreich...

Rolf J. Langhammer, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, sieht als Ziel ein auf Güter und ihre mit ihnen verbundenen Dienstleistungen beschränktes Abkommen. Die EU sollte den Briten etwas entgegenkommen, denn jedes Abkommen sei besser als der No-Deal. Nach den Berechnungen von Lisandra Flach,...

The UK exit from the European Union (Brexit) is likely to have a range of impacts, with trade flows likely to be most affected. One possible outcome of Brexit is a situation where WTO tariffs apply to merchandise trade between the UK and the EU. By examining detailed trade flows between the UK...

What would be the economic effects of the UK leaving the European Union on living standards of British people? We focus on the effects of trade on welfare net of lower fiscal transfers to the EU. We use a standard quantitative static general equilibrium trade model with multiple sectors,...

This paper seeks to expose the origins and impacts of electronic commerce on tax revenues, especially with regard to services and intangibles good transferable via download, making an analysis of the international scenario. Therefore, portrays the rise of the internet and its popularization,...

This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects on the UK and the euro area of an increase in trade tariffs associated with Brexit, by simulating a dynamic general equilibrium model of the UK, the euro area, and the rest of the world (RW). Our results are as follows: first, the imposition of...

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...