Public debt and economic growth: Further evidence for the euro area
This paper empirically investigates the short and long run impact of public debt on economic growth. We use annual data from both central and peripheral countries of the euro area (EA) for the 1961-2013 period and estimate a production function augmented with a debt stock term by applying the Autore...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/22926 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/22926 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | C22 F33 H63 O40 O52 Public debt Economic growth Bounds testing Euro area Peripheral euro area countries Central euro area countries Economía pública Hacienda Pública 5301 Política Fiscal y Hacienda Publica Nacionales |
| Sumario: | This paper empirically investigates the short and long run impact of public debt on economic growth. We use annual data from both central and peripheral countries of the euro area (EA) for the 1961-2013 period and estimate a production function augmented with a debt stock term by applying the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. Our results suggest different patterns across EA countries and tend to support the view that public debt always has a negative impact on the long-run performance of EA member states, whilst its short-run effect may be positive depending on the country. |
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