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Growth in a Time of Debt (2010) [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)
1 point by eatonphil on June 21, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Politically influential paper that turns out to be bogus. They had an Exel errors, seleted data exclusively and used weird weighing in the data that invalidates their result. When you fix the error, the conclusion reverses.

https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-abstract/38/2/257/17140...

>"While using RR's working spreadsheet, we identified coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics."

>When properly calculated, the average real GDP growth rate for countries carrying a public-debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent is actually 2.2 percent, not −0.1 percent as published in Reinhart and Rogoff. That is, contrary to RR, average GDP growth at public debt/GDP ratios over 90 percent is not dramatically different than when debt/GDP ratios are lower.




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