2011
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1893687
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Growth and Productivity: The Role of Government Debt

Abstract: We use a panel of 155 countries to assess the links between growth, productivity and government debt. Via growth equations we assess simultaneity, endogeneity, cross-section dependence, nonlinearities, and threshold effects. We find a negative effect of the debt ratio. For the OECD, the higher the debt maturity the higher economic growth; financial crisis are detrimental for growth; fiscal consolidation promotes growth; and higher debt ratios are beneficial to TFP growth. The growth impact of a 10% increase in… Show more

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“…Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) report the (now infamous) result that economies with a government debt/GDP ratio above 90% experience significantly lower GDP growth than less indebted countries. Similar regularities emerge in Afonso and Jalles (2011), but their estimates too are based on an ad hoc threshold. The final step of our analysis using advanced economies' data investigates the presence of non-linearities by applying the widely followed endogenous threshold approach proposed by Hansen (1999Hansen ( , 2000.…”
Section: Threshold Effects and Further Robustness Checksmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) report the (now infamous) result that economies with a government debt/GDP ratio above 90% experience significantly lower GDP growth than less indebted countries. Similar regularities emerge in Afonso and Jalles (2011), but their estimates too are based on an ad hoc threshold. The final step of our analysis using advanced economies' data investigates the presence of non-linearities by applying the widely followed endogenous threshold approach proposed by Hansen (1999Hansen ( , 2000.…”
Section: Threshold Effects and Further Robustness Checksmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…W opracowaniach, w których nie rozróżniono grupy badawczej (zob. tabela 3), można zauważyć, że w przypadku trzech spośród pięciu prezentowanych badań odnotowano niższą wartość bezpiecznego zadłużenia (Afonso, Jalles 2013;Egert 2015;Chen, Yao, Hu, Lin 2016). Najbardziej obszerne pod względem liczby krajów opracowanie, Afonso i Jallesa, wskazuje na próg bezpiecznego zadłużenia o wartości 59%.…”
Section: Wyniki Estymacji Modeli Panelowychunclassified
“…Afonso and Jalles [1] tried to link growth, productivity, and government debt using a panel of 155 developed and developing countries (period 1970-2008).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%