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Government Size and Trade Openness: Some Additional Insights

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  • Paolo Liberati

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This paper provides additional insights on the relationship between government size and trade openness using a panel of countries drawn from the World Development Indicators and the Penn World Tables 7.0 from 1962 to 2009. It is shown that the compensation hypothesis proposed by Rodrik (1998) and revisited by Alesina and Wacziarg (1998) and by Ram (2009) cannot be attributed general validity. On the one hand, it is shown that country size is not relevant to determine the sign of the relationship between government size and economic openness, contradicting previous results by Alesina and Wacziarg (1998). On the other hand, the relevance of the cross-country heterogeneity suggested by Ram (2009) to argue in favour of the compensation hypothesis only picks the characteristic of the African countries of being relatively more closed.

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  • Paolo Liberati, 2013. "Government Size and Trade Openness: Some Additional Insights," Research in World Economy, Research in World Economy, Sciedu Press, vol. 4(2), pages 12-17, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:jfr:rwe111:v:4:y:2013:i:2:p:12-17
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    JEL classification:

    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government

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