Liberati, Paolo - In: Research in World Economy 4 (2013) 2, pp. 12-17
compensation hypothesis proposed by Rodrik (1998) and revisited by Alesina and Wacziarg (1998) and by Ram (2009) cannot be … other hand, the relevance of the cross-country heterogeneity suggested by Ram (2009) to argue in favour of the compensation … hypothesis only picks the characteristic of the African countries of being relatively more closed. …