# Professor Pankaj Ghemawat shares his views on Britain's prospects for doing business globally after Brexit

1 Faculty News March 15, 2018 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21738894-governments-post-brexit-foreign-policy-global-britain-incoherent-global-britain-or) -- "[Pankaj Ghemawat](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/pankaj-ghemawat), of New York University, says there is some truth in this. All else equal, a common language boosts trade to 2.2 times what it would be without a common language, and colonial links can boost it to 2.5 times."

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