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“For Belgium, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands debt has a negative effect over growth from an endogenously determined breakpoint and above a debt threshold ranging from 56% to 103% depending on the country.”
From GGmez-Puig and Rivero (2015), DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2604869. The source publishes no abstract to check the quote against (checked 13 Oct 2026).
TopicEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceEconomics and EconometricsFiscal Policies and Political Economy
Keywordspublic debteconomic growthNetherlandsItalyGranger causalitybidirectional causality
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On the Bi-Directional Causal Relationship between Public Debt and Economic Growth in EMU Countries
Marta GGmez-Puig and Simmn Sosvilla Rivero
SSRN Electronic Journal · published 2015 · DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2604869
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The claim comes from a paper on how public debt and economic growth affect each other in euro-area (EMU) countries. It says that in four countries the link between debt and growth turns negative once debt passes a threshold. The threshold is estimated from the data rather than fixed in advance, and it differs by country. If it holds, it would suggest that how far debt can rise before it harms growth varies between countries, so a single debt limit would fit them unevenly.
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Refuted if an independent empirical study—using comparable data and methodology—finds that for each of the four countries the estimated coefficient on debt is not significantly negative (or is positive) when debt exceeds the country‑specific threshold between 56% and 103% of GDP, at a conventional significance level (e.g., p < 0.05).
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