While the effect of higher public debt levels on economic growth has received much
attention, the literature partly points to contradictory results. This paper applies meta …

This paper assesses the options available to researchers analysing multilevel (including
longitudinal) data, with the aim of supporting good methodological decision-making. Given …

We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what
types of journal articles are replicated. We find that between 1974 and 2014 0.1% of …

This paper analyzes the possible presence of Granger causality between debt and growth in
16 OECD countries from 1980 to 2009. This is done considering not only government debt …

New evidence is presented on the possible existence of bi-directional causal relationships
between public debt and economic growth in both central and peripheral countries of the …

There is ongoing debate regarding the shape of life-course trajectories in mental health.
Many argue the relationship is U-shaped, with mental health declining with age to mid-life …

We revisit the bi-directional causality between public debt and the rate of GDP growth for 10
EMU countries alongside the US, UK and Japan, over sample periods spanning from 1970 …

This paper offers a straightforward and descriptive contribution to the recent and busy
debate on fiscal discipline made popular by the seminal; Growth in a time of debt. American …

Abstract The High-speed Railway (HSR) network in China is the largest in the world,
competing intensively with airlines for inter-city travel. Panel data from 2007 to 2013 for 138 …

This paper approaches the causality of public debt and economic growth from three
perspectives: Historical for the data, theoretical for the relations, and econometrical for the …