Eleonora Alabrese

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

📣 EAYE 27 CFP is open! We invite early-career economists from all fields of economics to submit their work for the next Annual Meeting 📍 IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, IT 📅 22–24 May 27 📄 Paper/extended abstract 📅 Deadline: 15 Nov 26 Spread the word! #EAYEAM27

What an incredible experience to serve as the local organiser of this year’s TAD Workshop @uniofbath.bsky.social! Thanks to my wonderful co-organisers, our keynote speakers and participants for making this so stimulating and to everyone who helped bring it together — already excited for the next!

This is an effort that has been underway since 2020. The story of Brexit has not ended as the world is in unchartered territory. Economic and political cooperation to solve transnational challenges are more important than ever. A longer 🧵 on the results bsky.app/profile/elea...

This paper is obviously relevant today, as we mark the 10th anniversary of Brexit, but I don't want to add to the plethora of takes on current events. Instead, let me zoom out and disucss the (fairly nuanced) implications of our analysis both for understanding British politics over the last decade

This is a heck of a thread with a 👀 punchline: 'Areas that voted most strongly for Leave have not suffered the largest economic costs. The correlation is weakly negative as Remain-voting areas (London, Scottish cities, university towns) bore the brunt. Brexit was a levelling up by levelling down'

Brexit has cost the UK economy roughly 7-8% and the effects were more severe in Scotland and London, two regions which did not vote for Brexit: “Brexit was a levelling up by levelling down”

This looks interesting

New study of Brexit impact on nations and regions finds more successful places harder hit, especially Scotland (and London)

Fascinating stuff.

Fascinating. Looks like we were wrong to think Leave voting regions would be hit harder, and story is closer to Dhingra, Machin and Overman's one ideas.repec.org/p/cep/cepbxt...

Brexit, an absolute self-inflicted disaster. Exhibit 1,876,914:

If the aim of Brexit was to bring down those fancy Londoners and annoying Scots a peg or two, it was a roaring success!

Britain did become more economically equal as a result of Brexit. By levelling down. Presumably, this is a good thing, if you are into the Spirit Level and all that?

The economics of hate is very expensive. BREXIT was a huge own goal.

Amazing data and insights. Highly recommended.

Worth a read... Why am I not surprised?

Great piece by @eleala.bsky.social et al (2026) "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" Boris Johnson wanted to level up the UK. Brexit has achieved the opposite ... say the authors put it “levelling up by levelling down” @jdportes.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity for anyone on the market interested in media economics and experimental methods. Please share widely!

EHU @ehu.eus hosted one of the main international conferences for young economics researchers. The EAYE @eayeconomists.bsky.social annual meeting brought PhD students and early-career researchers from around the world together in Bilbao. #EAYEAM26 #EconConf #EconSky www.ehu.eus/eu/web/campu...

Thank you for a wonderful #EAYEAM26 in Bilbao! Fantastic to see such an engaged community of young economists, w great papers, discussions and a lively atmosphere — from sessions to lunches overlooking the Guggenheim Congratulations to all winners. See you next year in Lucca!🎉

📣 The full programme for #EAYEAM26 is out! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon in Bilbao at the University of the Basque Country, 18–20 May, for the European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting 🔗 Find the full programme here: www.eaye.info/eayeam/2026-...

Excited to co-organise the 3rd “Text-as-Data” in Economics Workshop @uniofbath.bsky.social, 16–17 July ’26. Keynotes: Daniel Chen & Milena Djourelova. Submissions on NLP, LLMs, ML & related methods welcome across economics & neighbouring fields. Deadline: 24 May — please share!

Thank you for having us @eleala.bsky.social !

It's been great to host the PEPE Workshop 2026! Many thanks to all speakers and participants for two very stimulating days of presentations and discussions, and for making the workshop such an engaging event — already looking forward to the next edition!

It was a pleasure giving a seminar yesterday at the University of Bath! Great group of applied researchers, Great food and Great city!! Thank you very much for the invitation @clafuentemar.bsky.social Judith Delaney @eleala.bsky.social Chiara Santantonio & Joanna Clifton @ubeconomics.bsky.social

📢 Apply by January 26: EEA's Education Committee Seedcorn Fund, supporting development & implementation of small-scale innovative projects aiming to improve the delivery of HE & undergrad or postgrad students' learning experience ℹ️ bit.ly/4nSPSYt @ctale.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social

📢 #EconSky 👇 📍Dublin 🗓️August 17-21 🙏@ucddublin.bsky.social Full info: eea-esem-congresses.org @ecqe.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social

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⏰ Reminder! Submissions for the EAYE 2026 Annual Meeting, hosted by @ehu.eus, are open for just a few more days! Deadline: 28 December 2025 See the CfP for details 🔗 www.eaye.info/eayeam/2026-...

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Eleonora Alabrese (@eleala.bsky.social, U. of Bath) on "Bad Science: Retractions and Media Coverage". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

📢 Call for papers! The EAYE Annual Meeting welcomes submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (4-8K characters) in all fields of economics 👉 18–20 May '26, University of the Basque Country ⏲️ Submission deadline extended to 28 December 2025!

Paul is here making our lives 1000 times easier!!! Thanks for this!!!

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on October 20 at 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 with @eleala.bsky.social (@uniofbath.bsky.social), who will present "Politicized scientists: credibility cost of political expression on Twitter" 🔗 www.eleonora-alabrese.com 📄 lmy.de/iaYes #EconSky

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🚨 Call for Papers! The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026 📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT #EAYE2026

Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍 Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏 To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀

Monday, Sept 8 @ 15:00 CEST WORKSHOP: APPLYING FOR ERC GRANTS 📍VIRTUAL ℹ️& register: www.eeassoc.org/news/applyin...