Brexit referendumfirm investmentuncertaintytrade costsGeneralCountry and Industry Studies of TradeIn this paper I apply firm-level analysis to examine how the Brexit process has affected business investment in the UK. An interaction term of potential trade cSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
A referendum is basically a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part, normally giving a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question. Whichever side gets more than half of all votes cast is considere...
While it is well-known that Brexit will have consequences for the UK's role in the world, foreign affairs is not thought to have featured prominently in the referendum campaign itself. This apparent lack of foreign policy salience is surprising given the broader challenge to liberal international...
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...
UK's Corbyn to Back Second Brexit Referendum: the Times More Reuters Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump, in London, Britain, June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville (Reuters) - British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn wil...
We test the impact of the EU issue in the first parliamentary election following the UK's divisive Brexit referendum. We argue that while the EU issue was salient to voters, EU issue voting was inhibited by the indistinct and ambiguous positions adopted by the two major parties. To examine ...
举行公投,就是hold a referendum。 on June 23, the United Kingdom willhold a national referendumto decide whether or not it should remain part of the European Union. 6月23日,英国将举行全国公投,以决定是否要继续留在欧盟。 各...
"Over the last three years, the overall interest of overseas job seekers in finding employment in Britain has fallen," Adrjan stressed. He noted that, since the Brexit referendum, the British pound has depreciated, which made jobs in the UK less attractive to foreign job seekers. ...
In this, the EU referendum is similar to the UK’sAlternative Vote referendumin 2011, in which voters were asked if they wanted to replace thefirst past the post voting systemwith the “alternative vote”. The result was no: 68 per cent to 32 per cent. ...
Brexit would cause contagion across Europe With the official date for the UK's referendum (全民投票) about whether or not leave the European Union now set, the debate has been steadily gaining more and more attention in recent weeks. American giant Morgan Stanley has become the latest to weigh...