Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Marta Gómez-Puig
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Author-Name: Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense Institute for Economic Analysis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 
Author-Name: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany.
Title: Re-examining the debt-growth nexus: A grouped fixed-effect approach
Abstract: This paper uses panel data for 116 countries over the period 1995-2016 to investigate the heterogeneity of the debt-growth nexus across countries and the factors 
	underlying it. In the first step, the grouped fixed effects (GFE) estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015) is used to classify countries into groups, with 
	group membership being endogenously determined. In the second step, a multinomial logit model is used to explore the drivers of the heterogeneity detected, among 
	them the quality of institutions, the composition of debt-funded public expenditure, the relative public and private indebtedness, and the maturity of debt. Finally, 
	the underlying factors explaining the time-varying impact of public debt on growth in the country groups identified is also investigated.
Classification-JEL: C23, F33, H63, O47, O52.
Keywords: Public debt; Economic growth; heterogeneity; Grouped fixed-effects; Debt-growth link; Panel data; Multinomial logit regression.
Length: 46 pages 
Creation-Date: 2019-07
Number: 2019-21
X-File-Ref: http://america.sim.ucm.es/repec/ucm/ref/doicae1921.txt
File-URL: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/56339/1/1921.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ucm:doicae:1921