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    The Debt-to-GDP Threshold Effect On Output: A Country-Specific Analysis
    (2017) Lechtenberg, Luke
    The recent economics literature has focused on establishing a general debt-to-GDP threshold across countries where output growth becomes negatively affected. This paper, conversely, attempts to establish debt-to-GDP thresholds for individual countries, the purpose of which is to show that a country’s fiscal policy decisions should be based on data specific to that country, which should foster more informed and prudent policy making.