Openness, Country Size and Government

This paper shows that smaller countries have a larger share of public consumption in GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up, and may account for the observed positive empirical relationship between trade openness and government size.

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Wacziarg, Romain ; Alesina, Alberto
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Harvard University

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Scholarly Articles.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published in Journal of Public Economics
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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