The Brexit vote, productivity growth and macroeconomic adjustments in the U.K

Ben Broadbent, Federico Di Pace, Thomas Drechsel, Richard Harrison and Silvana Tenreyro

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Abstract: The UK economy experienced significant macroeconomic adjustments following the 2016 referendum on its withdrawal from the European Union. To understand these adjustments, this paper presents empirical facts using novel UK macroeconomic data and estimates a small open economy model with tradable and non-tradable sectors. We demonstrate that the referendum outcome can be interpreted as news about a future decline in productivity growth in the tradable sector. An immediate fall in the relative price of non-tradable goods induces a temporary “sweet spot” for tradable producers. Economic activity in the tradable sector expands in the short run, while the non-tradable sector contracts. Aggregate output, consumption and investment growth decelerate.

JEL-codes: E32 F17 F41 F43 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2024-07-01
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Published in Review of Economic Studies, 1, July, 2024, 91(4), pp. 2104–2134. ISSN: 0034-6527

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