This paper aims at pointing out the factors that have led to the accumulation of public debt in the countries currently considered as developed. It first analyzes the dynamics of public debt in industrialized countries, putting into light that its level has always been high. Establishing that a...

The recent European sovereign debt crisis proved public debt issues should not be easily approached. While, prior to the crisis, public debt was of little concern in most of the developed European countries, as there had been no recent episodes of sovereign default, the crisis revived longtime...

The short- and long-term effects of public debt on economic growth in EU countries is analyzed in this paper, using data that covers a period of 25 years (1995-2019). For public debt, we used a proxy general government gross debt (as a percentage of GDP), while for economic growth, we used the...