Trade-offs : understanding future trade options for Scotland
Figus, Gioele and McIntyre, Stuart and McGregor, Peter and Roy, Graeme (2022) Trade-offs : understanding future trade options for Scotland. National Institute Economic Review. ISSN 0027-9501 (In Press)
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Abstract
Trade issues lie at the heart of the two biggest constitutional challenges the UK has faced in decades: Brexit and Scottish independence. Brexit has demonstrated the economic importance of borders and led to renewed calls for Scottish independence. While there are a range of possible trading arrangements an independent Scotland could pursue, all of them involve economically significant change. In this paper, we describe Scottish trade patterns and review the range of options that a newly independent Scotland might have for its trading arrangements. We then model the relative economic importance of these different potential trading arrangements.
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Item type: Article ID code: 80134 Dates: DateEvent5 April 2022Published5 April 2022Accepted6 January 2022SubmittedKeywords: trade, Scotland, trade-offs, future trade options, Scottish independence, trading arrangements, Regional economics. Space in economics, Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all) Subjects: Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races > Regional economics. Space in economics Department: Strathclyde Business School > Economics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Apr 2022 14:42 Last modified: 07 Apr 2022 14:51 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80134