We provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the economic impact of pandemics and identify the transmission channels at play. The primary channel comes from the supply side, as pandemics reduce both the quantity and the quality of labour. They can also lead to a destruc-tion of...

Any form of Brexit will impact heterogeneously in terms of sectors and regions on the competitiveness of firms in both the UK and Europe. The ongoing uncertainty about the conditions under which the UK will be leaving the EU, creates difficulties in structurally estimating these impacts. Using...

Contents: Introduction / Philip McCann and Tim Vorley -- 1 The Covid-19 shock: the UK national and regional implications in the light of international evidence / Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés -- 2 Frontier and 'laggard' firms: will there be significant changes to the distribution of...