Asymmetric impact of public debt on economic growth in selected EU countries

Šuliková, Veronika and Đukić, Mihajlo and Gazda, Vladimir and Horváth, Denis and Kulhánek, Lumir (2015) Asymmetric impact of public debt on economic growth in selected EU countries. Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú teóriu a hospodársku politiku, 63 (9). pp. 944-958. ISSN 0013-3035

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Abstract

The paper explores the asymmetric relation between public debt and economic growth in 13 EU countries in the period 1993–2013. A panel data model uncovers a linear relation between debt-toGDP decrease and GDP growth, while the relation between the debt-to-GDP increase and GDP growth is defined by an inverted U-shaped curve (parabola) with the peak at a 64% debt-to-GDP ratio. We identified two main patterns in relations between debt-to-GDP and GDP growth: (i.) hysteresis loop – country data trace the closed circle defined within the debt interval [53%,113%] (Austria, Finland, Denmark) and (ii.) debt trap – country debt-to-GDP ratio breaks the 113% level and indebtedness increase followed by the GDP fall is tracing the diverging tail of parabola (debt trap in Greece, Italy, Portugal)

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: COBISS.ID=512362594
Uncontrolled Keywords: public debt, economic growth, debt trap, dynamic panel data model, non-linear relation, asymmetric relation
Research Department: Macroeconomics
Depositing User: Jelena Banovic
Date Deposited: 14 Dec 2016 14:21
Last Modified: 14 Apr 2020 16:30
URI: http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/908

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