@techreport{NBERw6024,
 title = "Openness, Country Size and the Government",
 author = "Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "6024",
 year = "1997",
 month = "April",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6024",
 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.},
}