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Openness, Country Size and the Government

NBER Working Paper No. w6024

29 Pages Posted: 20 Jul 2000 Last revised: 19 Jun 2022

See all articles by Alberto F. Alesina

Alberto F. Alesina

Harvard University - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Romain T. Wacziarg

UCLA Anderson School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: May 1997

Abstract

This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up.

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Alesina, Alberto F. and Wacziarg, Romain T., Openness, Country Size and the Government (May 1997). NBER Working Paper No. w6024, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=226434

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