Baum, Anja; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Rother, Philipp - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 32 (2013) C, pp. 809-821
Against the background of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, our paper investigates the relationship between public … debt and economic growth and adds to the existing literature in the following ways. First, we use a dynamic threshold panel … methodology in order to analyse the non-linear impact of public debt on GDP growth. Second, we focus on 12 euro area countries for …