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4 claims from 3 papers

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

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

   Public debt and economic growth in advanced economies: A survey

   Panizza and Presbitero · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 2013

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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.”