Debt and Growth: Is There a Magic Threshold?

10 percentage point increase in the initial debt-to-GDP ratio is associated with a slowdown in annual real per capita GDP growth of 0.15 percentage points per year in AEs. They test for nonlinearities by introducing 3 interaction terms between initial debt and dummy variables for three ranges of initial debt, 30, 60, and 90, respectively. 4 ................
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