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3 claims from 2 papers

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

   Exogenous variations in public debt and the private output: addressing country heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence in a large panel

   Carvelli · Applied Economics · 2023

   Using IMF debt forecasts, the paper estimates how private output responds to unexpected changes in public debt across a large panel of countries, allowing for differences between countries and links between them.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's overall results suggest that unexpected rises in public debt are harmful to the growth of private-sector output.“The overall results suggest that positive shocks in public debt are detrimental to the dynamics of private output.”

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

   Government debt and economic growth: heterogeneity, asymmetries, and the role of net debt

   Carvelli and Trecroci · Applied Economics · 2024

   Using data on 167 countries from 1970 to 2019, the study re-examines how government debt relates to growth, addressing several panel data problems, and finds results that vary with measures and estimators.

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   1. UncheckedRises in debt per worker are linked to weaker long-run output, but government debt changes appear to work through different channels, per nonlinear estimates.“We find that increases in per-worker debt are detrimental to the long-run dynamics of output, but our nonlinear estimates suggest that changes in government debt propagate their effects through different channels.”
   2. UncheckedUsing gross rather than net public debt, or choosing a different estimator, gives different results on how government debt relates to economic growth.“Applying alternatively gross and net public debt as a measure of indebtedness yields different results too, as happens with the adoption of different estimators.”