While the effect of higher public debt levels on economic growth has received much
attention, the literature partly points to contradictory results. This paper applies meta …

This paper surveys the recent literature on the links between public debt and economic
growth in advanced economies. We find that theoretical models yield ambiguous results …

Using a dynamic panel threshold technique, this study provides new evidence on the
threshold value of the ratio of public debt to the gross domestic product in seventy-one …

We study the long-run relationship between public debt and growth in a large panel of
countries. Our analysis builds on theoretical arguments and data considerations in …

This paper uses an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a
causal effect on economic growth in a sample of OECD countries. The results are consistent …

This paper puts a variant of the Reinhart–Rogoff dataset to a formal econometric testing to
see whether public debt has a negative nonlinear effect on growth if public debt exceeds …

Purpose Considering the continuous rise in the public debt stock of developing countries
(particularly Ghana) with the unstable economic growth rate for the past decades and the …

We use panel data for 115 countries over the period 1995–2016 to model the heterogeneity
of the debt-growth nexus along with the underlying factors that might explain it. The grouped …

Most studies on the relationship between public debt and economic growth implicitly
assume homogeneous debt effects across their samples. We–in accordance with recent …

We study the effect of public debt on economic growth for annual and 5-year average growth
rates, as well as the existence of non-linearity effects of debt on growth for 14 European …