Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2018
We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 … specified, not accounting for cross-sectional dependence, non-stationarity and cointegration as well as parameter heterogeneity …. Using a panel time-series approach that adequately models these issues, we find that population size has a positive long …