In this paper, I have tried to answer whether higher public debt in advanced economies leads to rising long-term interest rates. First, I estimated the impact of public debt on long-term nominal interest rates on a sample of 18 advanced economies in the years 1950-2017 using a fixed effects model in various specifications. The effect of debt remained insignificant in all specifications. Second, with the help of a novel way of visualizing rollingwindow regression inspired by [12], I have shown that the impact of public debt is in fact time-varying, and a positive significant effect is rather a hallmark of recent decades.
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