The Bank of England has published results from its Agents' Survey of Companies over the period December 2018-April 2019: The average numbers from the responses to its questions on what companies believe will be the macroeconomic consequences of a #NoDeal #Brexit were as follows: Overall Output (i.e. GDP) is expected to fall by 3 ½%, employment by 3% while investment, perhaps more optimistically was expected to fall only by 1 ¼%. Exports were expected to fall nearly as much as GDP itself.
Note that, on the expectation for the immediate fall expected in output (GDP), the results of the companies' survey of the BoE roughly match the 3% contraction expected in the simulation results of the UK's National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which I have blogged just below this ost.
Markets expect, however, that owing to the ensuing post-#NoDealBrexit slack in the economy, that Interest Rates will fall during the year following the Brexit Date of October 31 2019, and rise gradually in the subsequent period, conditioned on a recovery.
Note that, on the expectation for the immediate fall expected in output (GDP), the results of the companies' survey of the BoE roughly match the 3% contraction expected in the simulation results of the UK's National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which I have blogged just below this ost.
Markets expect, however, that owing to the ensuing post-#NoDealBrexit slack in the economy, that Interest Rates will fall during the year following the Brexit Date of October 31 2019, and rise gradually in the subsequent period, conditioned on a recovery.
The figure below, represents a summary of the results of the survey, contrasted against responses elicited for a scenario where a Brexit Deal is reached between the EU and the UK, with a period to allow for transition, were presented in a July 23 2019 presentation by Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England.
