Public debt and economic growth:Further evidence for the euro area
- Gómez-Puig, Marta
- Sosvilla-Rivero, Simón
ISSN: 2339-9570
Año de publicación: 2017
Número: 9
Tipo: Documento de Trabajo
Otras publicaciones en: Documentos de trabajo = Working Papers ( Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales ): Nueva época
Resumen
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.