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  • Working Paper 18 June 2025

    UK trade and productivity across space

    By Gio Mion and Dongzhe Zhang et al.

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    This paper looks at how international trade and agglomeration economies are connected and finds that in denser areas, the trade productivity premium is lower.

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  • Evidence 19 May 2025

    Treaty scrutiny

    By Holger Hestermeyer and Alex Horne et al.

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    Written evidence in response to this inquiry is based upon a research project undertaken by the authors for the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy on, “Treaty Scrutiny: The Role of Parliament in UK Trade Agreements.” It considered the role of Parliament in scrutinising international agreements and proposed several ideas for reform. Both authors have practical experience of the issue having recently worked for the UK Parliament undertaking treaty scrutiny.

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  • Working Paper 19 May 2025

    Gains from Targeting? Government Subsidies and Firm Performance in China

    By Jiuli Huang, Yabin Wang and Min Zhu et al.

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    This paper studies the firm-level impact of a targeted capital import subsidy programme implemented in China to enhance firm productivity and technological development by reducing the cost of importing high-tech machinery not produced domestically.

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  • Evidence 15 May 2025

    Treaty scrutiny

    By Billy Melo Araujo, Ludivine Petetin, Lisa Claire Whitten, Lindsey Garner-Knapp and Viviane Gravey et al.

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    In response to this inquiry by the International Agreements Committee, our evidence reviews the UK’s treaty scrutiny legal framework and practice under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRAG) and highlights certain weaknesses / limitations. The report advocates for reforms: granting Parliament full approval powers over treaties, expanding scrutiny to cover more treaty types and non-binding instruments, and improving transparency and public engagement. It also calls for stronger consultation mechanisms with devolved governments and civil society, addressing systemic barriers. Without reforms, the UK's treaty-making process risks undermining democratic accountability, transparency, and legitimacy.

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  • Working Paper 15 April 2025

    Regional deprivation, individual prospects and political resentment

    By Giovanni Facchini, Anja Neundorf, Sergi Pardos-Prado and Cecilia Testa et al.

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    In this paper, the authors investigate whether individual income positions shape political attitudes differently based on local economic conditions.

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  • Blog post 15 April 2025

    The economic impact of secession

    By Gioele Figus, Peter McGregor, Stuart McIntyre and Graeme Roy.

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    Assessing the economic impact of secession on both seceding and successor regions.

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  • Academic Paper 30 March 2025

    Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession

    By Gioele Figus, Peter McGregor, Stuart McIntyre and Graeme Roy et al.

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    This paper analyses the impact of secession on the ‘seceding’ and ‘successor’ regions. A two-regions computable general equilibrium model is initially calibrated to a set of synthetic datasets where the regions only differ in relative size and trade integration. Using the case of two identical regions as a benchmark we show how relative size and trade integration determine the relative impact on both regions. This framework is used to explore three European case studies, the UK, Spain and Italy, demonstrating how, although always detrimental for both regions, trade integration and relative size explain the economic impacts of new trade borders.

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  • Working Paper 28 March 2025

    Market power, growth, and wealth inequality

    By Giammario Impullitti and Pontus Rendahl et al.

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    This paper provides a framework to link market power, growth, and inequality, offering new insights into how market power shapes the economy.

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  • Working Paper 24 March 2025

    Firm and labour adjustments to FDI liberalisation

    By Ming-Jen Lin, Yi-Ting Wang and Sung-Ju Wu et al.

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    This paper studies how liberalizing outward foreign direct investments (FDI) affects manufacturers’ engagement in global production and their domestic workers’ labour market outcomes

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  • Working Paper 25 February 2025

    Whom do we trust to take trade policy decisions? Evidence from Citizen Juries in the UK

    By Maria Savona, Alice Livingston Ortolani and L. Alan Winters CB et al.

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    This Paper explores public attitudes towards trade policy in the UK through a series of citizen juries.

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