Lechtenberg, Luke2018-03-272018-03-272017https://hdl.handle.net/11299/194889University Honors Capstone Project Paper, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2017.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.enDebt-to-GDP thresholdThreshold regression analysisEurozone governmentsDebt trajectoryGDP growthGovernment debtUniversity of Minnesota DuluthUniversity HonorsScholarly Text or Essay