Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147361 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6107
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We .nd that past European transfers have played virtually no role in the referendum. Economically strong regions tend to be in favor of remaining in the EU. Somewhat surprisingly, the intensity of immigration from the EU is positively correlated with the Remain vote.
Subjects: 
European integration
economic voting
cohesion policy
JEL: 
D72
F02
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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