Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Andrew Rose

No 5350, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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.

Keywords: Population; Big; Empirical; Data; Country; Cross-section; Panel; International (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev and nep-int
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