Threshold Effect of Public Debt on Domestic Investment: Evidence from Selected African Countries

In this paper, we study the non-linear relationship between total public debt and domestic investment, across a panel of 10 African economies from 1981 to 2010. Our analysis, based on a panel threshold approach proposed by Hansen (1999), confirms the significance of the nonlinear relationship betwee...

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Main Authors: Walid BENAYED, Foued Badr GABSI, Samia OMRANE BELGUITH
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2015-12-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/1144.pdf