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Economists for Brexit challenge consensus

28 April 2016

The consensus among economists that Britain's departure from the EU would damage its economy was broken on Thursday with the publication of a pamphlet from Economists for Brexit. This rejected the ''economic nonsense'' of the Treasury, International Monetary Fund, London School of Economics and OECD. Instead, the eight economists said a British exit ''will bring measurable net economic advantages''. ...

While the Treasury did not model unilateral free trade on WTO rules, the London School of Economics did. Without the assumption that trade is automatically diverted, it found the costs to exports facing the EU tariff wall were significantly bigger than the benefits from abolishing all tariffs on imports.

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Related publications
The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: Trade effects, Swati Dhingra, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco Ottaviano and João Paulo Pessoa, Technical Paper for CEP Brexit Analysis Paper No.02, March 2016

Related links
Swati Dhingra webpage
Hanwei Huang webpage
Gianmarco Ottaviano webpage
Trade Programme webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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