The paper explores public attitudes towards trade policy in the UK through a series of citizen juries. Unlike experimental survey-based approaches to trade policy preferences, this study qualitatively analyses deliberative discussions to gain insights into public perceptions, reasoning, and...

The EU and the UK both control domestic greenhouse gas emissions through cap-and-trade systems – their Emission Trading Systems. To reduce ‘carbon leakage’ they propose to charge imports for emissions at the same price as domestic producers through Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms,...

The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain...