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Uk Chamber of Shipping hears Brexit warning

19 July 2016

The UK Chamber needs to know the details because member shipowners gain their revenue from trade; however, Dr Swati Dhingra, lecturer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, brought little good cheer. The overwhelming sentiment from economists, she observed, is that Brexit is negative for the country's economy, with forecasts of a decline in the UK's GDP of an optimistic 2% and a pessimistic 8% from current levels by 2030. There will also be a divergence of regulatory policy between the EU and UK, increased levels of border checks, and other unspecified administrative burdens.

This article was published online by IHS Fairplay.com on July 19, 2016
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Related publications
Brexit: the impact on UK trade and living standards, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen. Article in CentrePiece Volume 21, Issue 1, Summer 2016
The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen, CEP Brexit Analysis Series Paper No.02, March 2016
See Technical Appendix to CEP Brexit Analysis Series Paper No.2 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

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