The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak … government capabilities will tend to rely on spending expansions to deal with trade-induced volatility, countries with stronger …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

This paper investigates empirically the effect of import diversity on government size and provides evidence for the … love of variety effect on government spending described in Hanslin (2008). I argue that crowding out of firms is an …. The diversity of imported products has a positive effect on government consumption, particularly when these goods are …