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Global shocks and the debt‐growth nexus

Fabrizio Casalin, Giorgio Fazio, Jacoub Sleibi Orcid Logo

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This paper re-examines the relationship between debt and growth with and without the influence of global shocks for a panel of 22 economies. The analysis introduces an approach that accounts for the complexity of global factors and estimates the debt-to-growth and growth-to-debt nexus for household,...

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ISSN: 0095-2583 1465-7295
Published: Wiley 2026
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