Size really doesn't matter: In search of a national scale effect |
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Authors: | Andrew K. Rose |
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Affiliation: | aHaas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1900, USA |
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Abstract: | I search for a “scale” 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's 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. J. Japanese Int. Economies 20 (4) (2006) 482–507. |
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Keywords: | Population Big Empirical Data Country Cross section Panel International |
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