{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:38c047b0e3b1be61","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"The results establish the nonlinear relationship between debt and growth.","quote":"The results establish the nonlinear relationship between debt and growth.","test":"Refuted if an independent analysis of a comparable cross‑country panel dataset covering 1960–2009 demonstrates that the debt‑to‑GDP ratio explains average growth with a statistically significant linear relationship across all observed debt regimes, and no evidence of curvature or other nonlinear patterns is found within the data’s sampling variability.","source":"doi:10.1002/ijfe.1729","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1729","field":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. 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In the paper's context, this fits its finding that the effect depends on the debt regime a country is in. If it holds, it matters for judging how much debt governments can carry before growth is affected.","findings":["Government debt and growth show a negative relationship, with a 10-percentage point rise in debt-to-GDP associated with a 23 basis point reduction in average growth.","Impulse-response functions and variance decomposition show evidence of a long-term effect of debt on economic growth.","The effect is not uniform across countries but depends mostly on debt regimes and variables such as inflation, trade openness, government consumption and foreign direct investment."],"terms":[{"term":"nonlinear relationship","means":"A relationship in which a change in one thing does not have the same effect on another at every level, so it cannot be drawn as a straight line."},{"term":"debt regimes","means":"Groups of country-periods defined by how high government debt is relative to the size of the economy."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-13T18:32:11.016Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-13T18:32:11.016Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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