Expecting Brexit

Dhingra, Swati ORCID: 0000-0001-5468-3415 and Sampson, Thomas ORCID: 0009-0006-2237-5497 (2022) Expecting Brexit. Annual Review of Economics, 14 (1). 495 – 519. ISSN 1941-1383

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Abstract

The Brexit vote precipitated the unraveling of the United Kingdom's membership in the world's deepest economic integration agreement. This article reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed expectations about future UK–EU relations. Studying its consequences provides new insights regarding the economic impacts of news and uncertainty shocks. Voting for Brexit had large negative effects on the UK economy between 2016 and 2019, leading to higher import and consumer prices, lower investment, and slower real wage and GDP growth. However, at the aggregate level, there was little or no trade diversion away from the European Union, implying that many of the anticipated long-run effects of Brexit did not materialize before the new UK–EU trade relationship came into force in 2021.Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Economics, Volume 14 is August 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/economics
Additional Information:	© 2022 Annual Reviews
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2022 14:27
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2024 08:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113783

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