We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly specified and fail to consider the influence of cross-sectional...

"Over-the-counter derivative contracts bind institutions together in a network of opaque, credit risks the size and characteristics of which can change rapidly and can be said to be not understood with a high degree of precision, including by market participants themselves." (Garry J. Schinasi,...