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5 claims from 3 papers

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

   Public Debt and Growth

   Woo and Kumar · Economica · 2015

   The paper examines a large panel of countries over four decades and finds that high initial public debt is significantly associated with slower subsequent long-run economic growth.

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   1. UncheckedHigh public debt is linked to slower growth mainly via weaker labour productivity growth, which in turn mostly reflects slower capital accumulation.“The adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labour productivity growth mainly due to slower capital accumulation.”

2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

   Default Risk of Advanced Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps during the Financial Crisis

   Dieckmann and Plank · European Finance Review · 2011

   The paper studies European sovereign credit default swap prices during the financial crisis and links their rise to the health of national and world financial systems.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's results suggest markets price in expected bailouts of banks, so financial-sector risk shifts into governments' credit default swap prices.“Our results suggest the presence of a private-to-public risk transfer through which market participants incorporate their expectations about financial industry bailouts.”

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

   "Finding The Tipping Point -- When Sovereign Debt Turns Bad"

   Caner, Grennes and Koehler-Geib · 2010

   Using threshold estimations on yearly data for 101 economies from 1980 to 2008, the study looks for a public debt level beyond which debt is associated with slower economic growth.

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   1. UncheckedThreshold estimates on 101 economies from 1980 to 2008 put the public debt-to-GDP level at which debt starts to dampen growth at 77 percent.“The estimations establish a threshold of 77 percent public debt-to-GDP ratio.”
   2. UncheckedAbove a debt threshold of 77% of GDP, each extra percentage point of public debt is linked to 0.017 points less annual real growth.“If debt is above this threshold, each additional percentage point of debt costs 0.017 percentage points of annual real growth.”
   3. UncheckedIn emerging markets, the paper estimates that public debt starts to slow growth at a lower threshold, 64 percent of GDP, and with a stronger effect.“The effect is even more pronounced in emerging markets where the threshold is 64 percent debt-to-GDP ratio.”