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7 claims from 4 papers

1. 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.”

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

   Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth?

   Heimberger · Journal of Economic Surveys · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“However, we cannot reject a zero effect after correcting for publication bias.”
   2. Unchecked“In testing for nonlinear effects, our results do not point to a uniform public‐debt‐to‐GDP threshold beyond which growth slows.”

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

   This Time They Are Different

   Eberhardt and Presbitero · IMF Working Paper · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We find some support for a nonlinear relationship between debt and long-run growth across countries, but no evidence for common debt thresholds within countries over time.”

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

   Public Debt, Economic Growth and Non-Linear Effects: Myth or Reality?

   Égert · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We also show that when non-linearity is detected, the negative non-linear effect kicks in at much lower levels of public debt (between 20% and 60% of GDP).”
   2. Unchecked“Using non-linear threshold models, we show that the negative non-linear relationship between debt and growth is very sensitive to modelling choices.”