BBC News:
EU Referendum ? Reality Check: Would Brexit cost your family #850 a year?
13 April 2016
The £850 per household figure is the optimistic end of a forecast from the well-respected Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. The CEP is predicting a 1.3% to 2.6% fall in GDP, which is the value of everything produced in the economy, currently about £1.8tn a year. Take 1.3% of that and divide by the 27 million households in the UK and you have your answer.
This article was published online by BBC News on April 13, 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
Hanwei Huang webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage