This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...

This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...

The UK's exit from the EU can affect Russia primarily through an increase in volatility in the world markets and the consequent reduction in medium term oil prices. Impacting Russia directly through trade is less likely. First, the United Kingdom accounts for about 2% of Russia' trade turnover....

Exports in Russia dropped to $129.7bn in H1 2016, representing 71.3% and 50.8% of what they were in H1 2015 and H1 2014, respectively. Russia's share of global exports of all goods stood at 2.1% at 2015 year end, down 6 p.p. from 2.7% in 2014. The share of Russia exports in global markets of...

Germany should pay more attention to risks in procurement, manufacturing and sales in China. First, China’s population has been shrinking since 2022 and is rapidly ageing; this will cause its economic strength as well as production and consumption opportuni-ties to decrease. Secondly, the...

In 2013 China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including in Indonesia a “Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road (Road)” that crosses the Indian Ocean (IO) and continues up into the Mediterranean. For Africa this produced an early Eastern focus for which there has been no...