Bloomberg News online:
Brexit Bulletin: The Ghost at the Debate
31 May 2017
May’s insistence that “no deal is better than a bad deal” is wrong, according to a report by the Centre for Economic Performance….
“In practice the no-deal outcome, where the U.K. and EU trade under WTO terms, is the worst-case scenario for the U.K. economy,” CEP economists Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson said in the report.
Related publications
CEP Election Analysis: ‘Brexit and the UK Economy’, Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson. May 2017 Paper No' CEPEA040: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/ea040.pdf
CEP BREXIT Analysis: ‘The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards’, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson and John Van Reenen. March 2016. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/brexit02.pdf
Related links
CEP Brexit 2016 webpage: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/brexit/
CEP Election 2017 webpage: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/election2017/default.asp