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6 claims from 3 papers

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

   Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes Since 1800

   Reinhart, Reinhart and Rogoff · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“Consistent with Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) and most of the more recent research, we find that public debt overhang episodes are associated with lower growth than during other periods.”
   2. Unchecked“Among the 26 episodes we identify, 20 lasted more than a decade.”
   3. Unchecked“These growth-reducing effects of high public debt are apparently not transmitted exclusively through high real interest rates, as in eleven of the episodes, interest rates are not materially higher.”

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.”