Openness, Country Size and the Government / Alberto Alesina, Romain Wacziarg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alesina, Alberto.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wacziarg, Romain.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6024.

NBER working paper series no. w6024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

States, Small--Economic conditions.

States, Small.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

May 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.