TY  - JOUR
AU  - Alesina,Alberto
AU  - Wacziarg,Romain
TI  - Openness, Country Size and the Government
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6024
PY  - 1997
Y2  - April 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6024
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6024.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alberto F. Alesina
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center 210
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-8388
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: aalesina@harvard.edu

Romain Wacziarg
Anderson School of Management at UCLA
C-510 Entrepreneurs Hall
110 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481
Tel: 310 825 4507
E-Mail: wacziarg@ucla.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -