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Going for Growth? Do Labour’s economic plans add up? ⁦(we need to talk about Brexit) PRT1969⁩ & myself for ⁦The Conversation⁩ ⁦Bham Business School⁩ ⁦UK in a Changing Europe⁩ ⁦IPR⁩ theconversation.com/keir-starmer-r…

Great to host a fantastic set of presentations from #ECRs in our first #Midlands #Trade & #Investment network. Many thanks to the organisers Agelos Delis and Liza Jabbour our presenters and discussants

A very busy & productive day at the 1st Midlands Trade & Investment Network ECR Conference. 12 very interesting papers about #Globalisation & #Sustainability. A joy to co-organise together with Liza Jabbour. Special mention to the local host Centre for Business Prosperity, Aston Business School

New FDI projects in UK fall to near 12-year low on.ft.com/45FcUKp

New article from stephen roper, Mark Hart and myself out today summarising the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)'s research on small business growth and productivity - Growing pains: How to help small businesses scale | News | Warwick Business School wbs.ac.uk/news/help-smal…

Labour’s options for boosting trade with Europe? Vet deal drawn from our research ⁦with @shepotylo⁩ ⁦@gmssngr⁩ to start, then regulatory alignment, PEM, musicians, mutual recognition, and CBAM. ⁦Centre for Business Prosperity⁩ ⁦Aston University⁩ on.ft.com/3XLXIJe

The first Office for National Statistics (ONS) data release of the Labour government shows GDP growth of 0.4% in May, while goods trade shrunk by 6.6% and services trade grew 0.4% leaving the UK’s big picture trade performance unchanged. A thread 1/x

"Well begun is half done." - Aristotle. Great to be invited back to German House this week to present our work on UK–EU Veterinary Agreement and Agri-food Trade and stimulate discussions from experts. This is a good beginning and we are proud to play a part. @shepotylo @gmssngr

🚨We have a range of #PhD opportunities at Aston University and the Aston Business School. Special shout to an Centre for Business Prosperity project on #Cross-border #Innovation in #Green and #Digital #Technologies during #global #economic shifts under Jun Du and Dalila Ribaudo 👇 aston.ac.uk/graduate-schoo…

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📕Call for Entries: Elgar Publishing #Encyclopedia of #Productivity, supported by The Productivity Institute, visit aston.ac.uk/call-entries-c… for details. Deadline for proposal 15 Nov, 2024, full entry 15 February 2025. Join Us in Shaping the Future of Productivity! Centre for Business Prosperity

NEW 🧮 comprehensive Brexit trade analysis suggests hit from new trade barriers worsening in 2023 as UK decouples from EU supply chains… uses 3 full years data to analyse trends by sector/ sub sector/ nation 27% export hit vs its no Brexit model: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Brexit is having “profound and ongoing” negative impact on UK goods exports and imports, latest Jun Du analysis finds. No one lives in the counter factual world, but leaving single marks continues to cost UK. And 2023 was worse! 1/2 on.ft.com/4gpd3qd

Great piece about the effects of #Brexit on the UK economy by my colleagues Jun Du @shepotylo and Yujie Shi from Centre for Business Prosperity Aston Business School bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Britain self sanctioned itself with Brexit trade barriers, making it almost impossible to export and import goods to/from our biggest market. The new deals with the RoW are worse and British businesses are suffering as there’s less trade, less variety and higher prices.  Labour

Surprised and saddened by this news on UK in a Changing Europe. I've also had a hard time this year to secure resources for my Brexit trade work, as my boss thinks it should be paid by an external funder. Q: Who should pay for creating "unpopular" but timely, badly needed public goods❓ Economic and Social Research Council

It’s REALLY not f***ing surprising that exporters from mainland Europe are turning their backs on supplying Britain because of the “painful” new Brexit border checks putting trading relationships at “breaking point” What ought to WAKE people up is that also domestic production

JIBP Xiaolan Fu Dr. Kristin Brandl Ari Van Assche Valentina De Marchi Simona Iammarino 🇪🇺 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose carlo pietrobelli Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez Rasmus Lema Dalila Ribaudo Vito Amendolagine ANDREA MORRISON Andrea Presbitero Amir Lebdioui Riccardo Crescenzi Jun Du Michela Bello Here is the link to the JIBP call on Foreign Investment for Development Time for a New Agenda?palgrave.com/gp/journal/422… Guest editors Xiaolan Fu Dr. Kristin Brandl Robert Grosse and me