Economics of Brexit

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    Cultural, administrative, and economic proximity between the UK and Canada should be good for trade

Cultural, administrative, and economic proximity between the UK and Canada should be good for trade

Economists place considerable emphasis on the role of (geographic) distance in explaining the pattern of international trading relationships. Using a metaphor from Newtonian physics, trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) between countries are often seen as being driven by the forces of gravity, encapsulated in the relative size of their markets and the distance between their economies. Moreover, as […]

November 19th, 2018|#LSEThinks, Economics of Brexit, Featured|0 Comments|
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How EU migrants have propped up Britain’s social care

Last week NIESR published new research for the Cavendish Coalition on the implications of Brexit for the health and social care sector.  Their conclusions are stark:  Brexit is likely to lead to a substantial shortfall in nurses and doctors which needs to be urgently addressed by new immigration policy, writes Heather Rolfe (NIESR). However, while the implications of any future immigration […]

November 13th, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured, Migration|3 Comments|
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Brexit has already hurt EU and non-EU exports by up to 13% – new research

Over the past few months, Terence Huw Edwards (Loughborough University, left), Christian Soegaard (Warwick University) and Mustapha Douch (Aston University) have been investigating how the vote of June 23 2016 has since affected the values and patterns of Britain’s trade with major trading partners inside and outside the European Union. By comparing trade flows with a model of what […]

November 1st, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured, Uncategorized|3 Comments|
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Universities are a bargaining chip in the Brexit free-trade future

Higher education – although clearly not a government priority – is becoming a bargaining chip as the UK considers its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett (LSE) examines the May government’s proposal to treat higher education as a sweetener for free trade deals, an idea that is likely to have life in it whatever the immediate Brexit outcome.

Spare a thought […]

October 31st, 2018|#LSEThinks, Culture, Economics of Brexit, European politics, Featured, Foreign policy, Uncategorized|0 Comments|
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    London Calling Brexit: The City of London and the ‘baptist-bootlegger’ coalition

London Calling Brexit: The City of London and the ‘baptist-bootlegger’ coalition

Think of London and Brexit and most will think of what it means for ‘the City’, the heart of the UK’s financial services industry. In this, the second in our London Calling Brexit series, Scott James (King’s College London) and Lucia Quaglia (University of Bologna) examine why London’s financial institutions have failed to wield the influence over Brexit that […]

October 29th, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured, London Calling Brexit|0 Comments|
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The effect on foreign multinationals: an under-explored aspect of Brexit

While most of the studies on Brexit have focused on its trade effects, very few have analysed the likely impact on foreign multinationals. Claudia Fernández-Pacheco Theurer (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Jose Luis López Ruiz and María C. Latorre (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, left) argue that this is an important omission. They show how data on trade and foreign multinationals affiliates’ sales underlines […]

October 22nd, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured|0 Comments|
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    Long read: Global cities, multinationals, and trade in the age of Brexit

Long read: Global cities, multinationals, and trade in the age of Brexit

This post is the third in a series analysing the prospects for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) diversification, with a particular focus on the UK and Canada in the age of Brexit. Daniel Shapiro, Saul Estrin, Christine Cote, Klaus Meyer, and Jing Li examine the nature of trade in services using ideas developed in the international business and economic geography literature to explore […]

October 22nd, 2018|#LSEThinks, Economics of Brexit, Featured|1 Comment|
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    Long read: Can the UK capitalise on its service-based economy for trade diversification post Brexit?

Long read: Can the UK capitalise on its service-based economy for trade diversification post Brexit?

As concerns increase over the prospects for a positive post-Brexit agreement with the EU on the terms of exit, much attention continues to be focused on the attractiveness and viability of UK trade diversification. Our first post concluded that physical distance still matters in economic relations between countries and that the role of gravity when considering trade in goods, while […]

October 17th, 2018|#LSEThinks, Economics of Brexit|2 Comments|
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    Just how wrong is the Brexiteer view of an anti-market EU? Ask Canada or Australia

Just how wrong is the Brexiteer view of an anti-market EU? Ask Canada or Australia

Just how wrong is the Brexiteer view of an anti-market EU? Ask Canada or Australia, write Craig Parsons and Benedikt Springer. Brexiteers have frequently characterized the EU as a regulatory nightmare that impedes Britain’s traditional commitment to global openness and free trade. Well-informed observers generally know this is implausible—the EU is built around deep “single market” liberalisation, and promotes free-trade deals worldwide—but […]

October 15th, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured|19 Comments|
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The regulation of unfair trading practices after Brexit

The effect of Brexit on unfair trading practices (UTPs) has been largely overlooked, yet it could be very significant – especially in agriculture. Tom Verdonk (KU Leuven) looks at whether the regulations could diverge and what impact that would have.

With the UK’s imminent withdrawal from the EU, the EU’s motto “United in diversity” has clearly taken a hit. While […]

October 11th, 2018|Economics of Brexit, Featured|1 Comment|
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