Di Pace, Federico and Masolo, R.M. (2025) Brexit and the cost of living: a tale of two phases. Working Paper. Birkbeck Center for Applied Macroeconomics, London, UK. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We employ Synthetic Control Method techniques to estimate the causal effect of Brexit on the consumer price index (CPI) in the United Kingdom. We construct a counterfactual CPI index from a weighted pool of comparable economies and find that the price level of the United Kingdom rose approximately 7 percentage points more than its synthetic counterpart, between 2016Q2 and 2024Q4. This accounts for over a quarter of total inflation during the period. We attribute about 2 percentage points of this increase to the depreciation of the British pound after the Referendum and the remaining 5 percentage points to the change in trading relationships that ensued the 2021 Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
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| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | BCAM Working Paper #2503. ISSN: 1745-8587 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Yunus Aksoy |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2025 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2025 10:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55276 |
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