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Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance ×Clear all

18 claims from 10 papers

1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global Financial Crisis and Policies

   This Time Is Different

   Reinhart and Rogoff · Princeton University Press eBooks · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity.”
   2. Unchecked“Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established ma…

2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   On the Determination of the Public Debt

   Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1979

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   1. Unchecked“A central proposition is that deficits are varied in order to maintain expected constancy in tax rates.”
   2. Unchecked“This behavior implies a positive effect on debt issue of temporary increases in government spending (as in wartime), a countercyclical response of debt to temporary income movements, and a one-to-one effect of expected inflation on nominal debt growth.”

3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global Financial Crisis and Policies

   From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis

   Reinhart and Rogoff · American Economic Review · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“First, external debt surges are an antecedent to banking crises.”
   2. Unchecked“Second, banking crises (domestic and those in financial centers) often precede or accompany sovereign debt crises; we find they help predict them.”

4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff

   Herndon, Ash and Pollin · Cambridge Journal of Economics · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“The relationship between public debt and GDP growth varies significantly by period and country.”

5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › European Monetary and Fiscal Policies

   The European Sovereign Debt Crisis

   Lane · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“The origin and propagation of the European sovereign debt crisis can be attributed to the flawed original design of the euro.”
   2. Unchecked“In particular, there was an incomplete understanding of the fragility of a monetary union under crisis conditions, especially in the absence of banking union and other European-level buffer mechanisms.”
   3. Unchecked“Moreover, the inherent messiness involved in proposing and implementing incremental multicountry crisis management responses on the fly has been an important destabilizing factor throughout the crisis.”

6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes Since 1800

   Reinhart, Reinhart and Rogoff · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“Consistent with Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) and most of the more recent research, we find that public debt overhang episodes are associated with lower growth than during other periods.”
   2. Unchecked“Among the 26 episodes we identify, 20 lasted more than a decade.”
   3. Unchecked“These growth-reducing effects of high public debt are apparently not transmitted exclusively through high real interest rates, as in eleven of the episodes, interest rates are not materially higher.”

7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Is There a Debt-Threshold Effect on Output Growth?

   Chudík, Mohaddes, Pesaran and Raissi · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“In the empirical application, using data on a sample of forty countries over the 1965–2010 period, we find no evidence for a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and economic growth.”
   2. Unchecked“Regardless of the threshold, however, we find significant negative effects of public debt buildup on output growth.”

8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance

   DOI 10.1007/bf03399388

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   1. Unchecked“While many papers have found a negative correlation between debt and growth, our reading of the empirical literature is that there is no paper that can make a strong case for a causal relationship going from debt to economic growth.”

9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance

   DOI 10.1111/ecca.12138

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   1. Unchecked“The adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labour productivity growth mainly due to slower capital accumulation.”

10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    DOI 10.1093/rof/rfr015

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    1. Unchecked“Our results suggest the presence of a private-to-public risk transfer through which market participants incorporate their expectations about financial industry bailouts.”