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"Post-Brexit uncertainty is the foremost short-run drag": six questions to Ferdinand Fichtner

Interview of August 5, 2016

Dr. Fichtner, will the result of the British referendum to leave the EU send the UK and perhaps even the entire EU into economic crisis?

We believe that economic growth in the UK has already been dampened somewhat in the short term by this result. It will have a noticeable impact on economic growth in the UK. The decision is also relevant for the rest of Europe, of course, because weaker UK growth leads to correspondingly weaker UK imports. This can, in turn, considerably dampen exports from its partner countries. [...]

The interview with Ferdinand Fichtner is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 31/2016 (PDF, 133.05 KB) 

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