This paper investigates the influence of international openness on economic growth in a sample of 32 European economies …. The usual approach in the literature on the topic is to observe the impact of trade openness on growth. We, however …, broaden this standard approach and analyse not only economic aspect of openness but also socio-political aspect. In our …

.g. Sachs and Warner (1995)) and opponents (Rodriguez and Rodrik (1999)) of the view that openness to trade is linked to higher …. It concludes that the virtues of openness established in these nuanced in-depth studies remain unrefuted. …

size, openness and economic growth. In fact, more trade openness increases government size, which lays stabilizer role … openness from other side, where as per capita expenditure on public goods is lower, and large markets enjoy more productivity … and less incentives for large market to increase openness than the small markets. Finally, economic growth and government …