The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak …

This paper integrates a previously missing wealth-effect component in the openness-finance debate. From a panel of 29 … low and middle income African countries with data spanning from 1987 to 2008, we provide evidence that openness (trade and … economic cost of banks in sampled countries, with trade openness more detrimental than financial openness. Banks in middle …

This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving … force of Korea¡¯s economic growth since the 1960¡¯s and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on … bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In regard to this, this study measures the impact of Korea¡¯s trade openness …

, greater openness of the economy, and macroeconomic stability are indispensable. …

of intra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian …

affected by geophysical disasters; rich more by meteorological events. International openness and democratic institutions …