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Free Lunch: Brexitonomics

22 March 2016

How do we tally the economic consequences of Brexit? ... What matters is the quality of the jobs that Britons will work in outside versus inside the EU. For material well-being, that depends largely on whether the UK's trade with the outside world will be changed by Brexit. On this, the analysis by economists at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, a serious piece of research, is as good an estimate as is possible to make.

This article was published in the Financial Times on March 22, 2016
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Related publications
The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis No.2, March 2016.
Download the accompanying Technical Paper here
See the complete CEP Brexit Analysis Series here

Related links
Swati Dhingra webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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