Category: Brexit
Ten Years After Brexit: What the Evidence Shows
Two landmark studies published in 2025 and 2026 provide the most comprehensive assessment to date of Brexit’s economic costs. The combined picture shows significant losses in GDP, investment, productivity, and trade, with the damage concentrated in the regulatory and market-access barriers.
On post Brexit Britain
The UK financial sector and the immigration system post Brexit: is there cause for optimism?
Brexit and trade
Thoughts on the US-UK free trade agreement, the EU-UK global value chains and the exchange rate pass-through effect on UK inflation.
British Pound: Topsy-Turvy
Gourinchas and al and Wren-Lewis have been expecting for the pound to continue depreciating without benefiting the UK economy. But the announcement of the June 8 general election might reverse the trend as new research by Sornette and al. indicates and Didion evaluates Prime Minister May’s negotiating strategy.