Acta Oeconomica
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Volume 68: Issue 2
Public debt and economic growth: Further evidence for the euro area
Authors:
Marta Gómez-Puig Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Simón Sosvilla-Rivero Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

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Pages:
209–229
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2018
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2018
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2018.68.2.2
Keywords:
public debt; economic growth; bounds testing; euro area; peripheral euro area countries; central euro area countries; C22; F33; H63; O40; O52
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This paper empirically investigates the short and the long run impact of public debt on economic growth. We use annual data from both the central and the 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 the 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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