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LSE says Brexit cost for households #850 a year

18 March 2016

Leaving the EU would cost UK households at least £850 a year each, according to research that prompted a furious response from Brexit supporters on Friday. The economists at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, which receives core funding from the UK taxpayer-funded Economic and Social Research Council, said losses could be much higher if they assumed a bigger hit to trade and competition.

This article was published by the Financial Times on March 18, 2016
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Related publications
Life after Brexit: What are the UK's options outside the European Union?, Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson, CEP Brexit Analysis No.01, February 2016
The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis No.02, March 2016.
Download the accompanying Technical Paper here
See the complete CEP Brexit Analysis Series here

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Swati Dhingra webpage
Hanwei Huang webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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