We analyse the dynamics of public debt in Serbia between 2004Q3 and 2014Q3. Our results are as follows: i) traditional unit root tests do not reject the unit root hypothesis for public debt; ii) unit root tests robust to sample size and high AR (1) coefficient provide mixed evidence with respect...

We study the dynamic relationship between the public debt ratio and the real interest rate. By means of a macroeconomic model of simultaneous difference equations - one for the debt ratio and the other for the real interest rate - we focus on the role of monetary policy, fiscal policy and risk...

Most studies on the effects of debt on growth, particularly following the global financial crisis, have focused mainly on the advanced and emerging countries. Our focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) derives from the recent experience of slow growth at a time of rising debt in the sub-region. This...

We empirically investigate whether the relationship between interest rates and public deficits/debt may be nonlinear for the U.S. Using threshold estimation, we find evidence of level-dependent effects on interest rates, implying a significant effect of projected deficits and debt in the U.S....

Public finance sustainability plays a central role in the stabilization efforts in Latin America. The emphasis on fiscal policy in these countries goes back to the debt crisis of the 1980s, which was associated with large fiscal imbalances. We analyze the sustainability of government debt for a...