KÜRESELLEŞME ÇAĞINDA EKONOMIK BÜYÜME VE KAMU BORCU: GELIŞMEKTE OLAN ÜLKELERE DAIR BIR İNCELEME

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 1 - 23, 31.12.2018

Barış Kablamacı

Abstract

Özet

Bu çalışma, 1970-2015 yılları arasını kapsamak üzere 72 az gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkenin, kamu borcu ve

ekonomik büyüme arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisini ampirik olarak incelemektedir. Toda-Yamamoto genişletilmiş

Granger nedensellik analiz testi uygulanmıştır. Yapılan analize göre, 21 ülkede ekonomik büyümeden kamu

borçlanmasına doğru, 15 ülkede kamu borçlanmasından ekonomik büyümeye doğru, 9 ülkede karşılıklı bir

nedensellik ilişkisi tespit edilmiş ve 27 ülke ekonomisi için kamu borçlanması ile ekonomik büyüme arasında

herhangi bir nedensellik ilişkisi gözlemlenmemiştir.

Keywords

Kamu borcu, Ekonomik büyüme, Nedensellik analizi

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PUBLIC DEBT IN THE ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION ERA: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

Abstract

This paper empirically examines the causal relationship between public debt and economic growth in a

sample of the 72 countries consisting of less developed and developing, country-by-country, in the period

of 1970–2015. I apply the Toda-Yamamoto augmented Granger non-causality testing procedure. I observe

a significant causality from economic growth to the public debt of a country in twenty-one countries. In

fifteen countries, there is a unidirectional causality running from the public debt to economic growth. I find

bi-directional causality in only nine countries and no causal relation in twenty-seven economies.

Keywords

Public debt, Economic growth, Causality analysis

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