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

   Public debt and economic growth in G7 countries: do financial and political institutions matter?

   Bozatlı and Serin · Applied Economics · 2025

   Using 1984–2019 data for the G7 countries, the paper studies how financial and political institutions shape the link between public debt and economic growth, and finds it differs from country to country.

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   1. UncheckedIn G7 data from 1984 to 2019, the debt-growth link is inverted-U in Italy and the UK, U-shaped in Germany and the USA, with mixed institutional effects elsewhere.“The findings of this study, in which current panel time-series techniques are adopted, show that the PD-EG interaction can be in the form of an inverted U (Italy and UK) or U shape (Germany and U.S.A.) and that institutional factors do not generate effects in the same direction for some countries (…”
   2. UncheckedIn G7 countries, the public debt level at which growth effects change may be lower when financial and political institutions are taken into account.“Moreover, the findings provide robust evidence that the threshold values of the PD-EG relationship may be lower in the presence of institutional factors.”
   3. UncheckedThe authors argue that no single debt threshold or effect holds generally for public debt and growth, and the same applies to models adding institutional factors.“In this regard, we argue that just as neither a threshold value nor an effect can be accepted as generally valid in the PD-EG relationship, a similar result is valid for modelling that includes theoretical factors.”