The impact on trade of the Brexit referendum between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
(2024) NEKN01 20241Department of Economics
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Brexit-referendum on export trade between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries. The UK has long historical ties with the Commonwealth countries, in addition to its departure from the EU, it is interesting to investigate the British trade policy after Brexit. By constructing a synthetic United Kingdom from the remaining countries in the European Union, namely the EU-15, a counterfactual outcome is created where the leave vote in the Brexit referendum would not have occurred. This is compared with the actual outcome of the export trade to five large economies within the Commonwealth. The findings suggest that the synthetic control units are larger for most of the... (More)
- The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Brexit-referendum on export trade between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries. The UK has long historical ties with the Commonwealth countries, in addition to its departure from the EU, it is interesting to investigate the British trade policy after Brexit. By constructing a synthetic United Kingdom from the remaining countries in the European Union, namely the EU-15, a counterfactual outcome is created where the leave vote in the Brexit referendum would not have occurred. This is compared with the actual outcome of the export trade to five large economies within the Commonwealth. The findings suggest that the synthetic control units are larger for most of the country-pairs than the treated unit, indicating that the trade would have been higher if the remain vote for Brexit would have won. The results are not robust after running a number of sensitivity tests. The concluding remarks suggest that it is imperative to use other methods and additional data to conclude secure results of future trade policies between the UK and the Commonwealth. (Less)
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- author
- Abrahamsson, Fanny LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN01 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Brexit, The Commonwealth, Synthetic control method, European integration
- language
- English
- id
- 9166018
- date added to LUP
- 2024-10-01 13:05:00
- date last changed
- 2024-10-01 13:05:00
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