Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect / Andrew K. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Andrew K.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12191.

NBER working paper series no. w12191

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Size Really Doesn't Matter

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

I search for a "scale" effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical techniques, I search for an impact of size on the level of income, inflation, material well-being, health, education, the quality of a country's institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have little success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically different otherwise.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2006.