7 Yamin, I., Al_Kasasbeh, O., Alzghoul, A., Alsheikh, G. (2023) The Influence of Public Debt on Economic Growth: a Review of Literature 16
Ogawa, Sterken, and
Tokutsu (2016)
31 European Union
countries the period
1995 to 2013
panel VAR model
(-)
17
Owusu-Nantwi and
Erickson (2016)
Ghana
1970 to 2012
Johansen and VECM
(+)
18
Chiu and Lee (2017)
61 countries 1985–
2009
Hausman test
(+)
19
Chen, Yao, Hu, and Lin
(2017)
China
1991– 2014
Multiple regression analysis
(-)
20
Kim, Ha, and Kim
(2017)
77 countries 1990 to
2014
(OLS), (GMM) models
(-)
21
Chudik, Mohaddes,
Pesaran, and Raissi
(2017)
40 countries
1965-2010
dynamic heterogeneous panel
data models
~
22
Ferando and Serafim
(2018)
Angola
2004-2015
SAC -Spatial autocorrelation
model
(-)
23
Gómez-Puig, and
Sosvilla (2018)
euro area (EA) the
period 1961-2013
Autoregressive Distributed Lag
(ARDL) bounds
(-)
24
Esteve, and Tamarit
(2018)
Spanish economy
1851–2013
dynamic ordinary least squares
(DOLS) method
(-)
25
Ncanywa, and Masoga
(2018)
South Africa
impulse response function,
Granger causality, and
autoregressive distributive lag
(-)
~ Means no impact between debt and economic growth
(+) Means positive relationships between debt and economic growth
(-) Means negative relationships between debt and economic growth
CONCLUSION This paper seeks to determine whether a consensus exists about the impact of public
debt on economic growth. In reference to selected articles, 15 were found to report a negative
relationship between public debt and economic growth. However, the results also suggested
that the relationship may be positive. Similarly, there were studies that supported the neutrality
of public debt and economic growth. Therefore, there is no unanimity regarding the connection
between public debt and economic growth. The nature of the relationship may be positive,
negative, or neutral. Overall, this review demonstrates that the effect of public debt on economic
growth is not constant and varies depending on a number of heterogeneous factors, such as the
research methodology used, the level of development of the sampled countries, the relative size
of the public sector, institutional quality, the composition and structure of the government debt,
and the selected control variables, among others. The study finds, therefore, that the influence
of public debt on economic growth is ambiguous, and that the concept that public debt is
detrimental to economic growth is based only on prima facie evidence.
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