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

   Permanent and transitory effect of public debt on economic growth

   Abubakar and Mamman · Journal of Economic Studies · 2020

   The study splits the effect of public debt on economic growth in 37 OECD countries into permanent and transitory parts, finding a negative permanent and a positive transitory effect.

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   1. UncheckedIn the full OECD model, the lasting negative effect of public debt on growth was found to be larger than its short-lived positive effect.“The magnitude of the negative permanent effect of debt was found to be larger than the positive transitory effect.”
   2. UncheckedWhen OECD countries are split into groups, public debt has a negative lasting effect on growth in every group, but its short-term effect differs between groups.“Further, the estimates of the disaggregated models reveal that though public debt has a negative permanent effect across all the country groups, it was not the case for the transitory effect of debt.”