Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries

By A. Alesina, Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg. 2003

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Openness and income: The roles of trade and migration (2014, background): “Interactions with other countries can be a powerful engine of economic development and technological change, especially for small countries (Alesina et al., 2000, 2005; Frankel and Romer, 1999).”
Trade openness, income levels, and economic growth: The case of developing countries, 1970–2009 (2015, background): “Alesina, Spolaore, and Wacziarg (2005), however, stress the simultaneous use of both NTS and RTS indicators in order to address the issues raised by Alcalá and Ciccone (2004) and to allow for comparability of the results with previous studies.”
Decentralization and Political Institutions (2007, positive): “This effect can be attributed to an increase in political competition at the national level.(4) In addition, we find some evidence that subordination of local authorities to higher- level governments improves the effect of decentralization on growth, public goods provision (both in developing and de”
Trade openness and economic growth : a cross-country empirical investigation (2008, methodology): “(19)For instance, Alesina et al. (2003) conclude that ethnic and linguistic fragmentation indexes have an adverse effect on economic growth but religious fragmentation index does not. Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005a) find that ethnic and religious diversity measured by polarization indexes have a ”
Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “Ethnic diversity increases the cost of nation-building (Alesina et al., 2005), inhibits public goods provision (Easterly and Levine, 1997), and predicts the break-up of nations 28Raster data are taken from http://na.unep.net/datasets/datalist.php.”