TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rose,Andrew K.
TI  - Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12191
PY  - 2006
Y2  - May 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12191
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12191.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Andrew K. Rose
Haas School of Business Administration
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
Tel: 510/642-6609
Fax: 510/642-4700
E-Mail: arose@haas.berkeley.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-05-01
AB  - I search for a %u201Cscale%u201D  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%u2019s 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.
ER  -