Article by Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
As the deadline gets closer, the United Kingdom (UK) public debate is heating up on an event that, one way or another, could change the identity of the European Union (EU) and its economic relations with Japan and the rest of the world: the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU in 2017 (or possibly even earlier) to which the UK Prime Minister and his Conservative party committed since 2013.

This article was published online by RIETI on September 4, 2015
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Should we stay or should we go? The economic consequences of leaving the EU, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Thomas Sampson, CEP 2015 Election Analysis No.22, March 2015

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