Sustainability of European fiscal balances: Just a statistical artifact?

Rengel, Malte

doi:10.1007/s00181-018-1567-8

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“…There has been a broad spectrum of opinions in the literature on economics relating to public debt sustainability (Briceño and Perote, 2020;Sasmal and Sasmal, 2020;Ghosh et al, 2013a, b). Looking at governments' increasing reliance on borrowings, many economists have anticipated that such a situation is heading towards a "debt trap" (Rengel, 2020;Sovacool and Walter, 2019). When confronted with an environment of high deficits, the debt trap is the sustainability problem, which is perceived to be a long-term issue related to the government's budgetary position (de-C ordoba et al, 2022;Koirala et al, 2021;Gebhardt and Siemers, 2020;Schaltegger and Weder, 2014).…”

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“…, 2013a, b). Looking at governments' increasing reliance on borrowings, many economists have anticipated that such a situation is heading towards a “debt trap” (Rengel, 2020; Sovacool and Walter, 2019). When confronted with an environment of high deficits, the debt trap is the sustainability problem, which is perceived to be a long-term issue related to the government's budgetary position (de-Córdoba et al.…”

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Public debt sustainability: a bibliometric co-citation visualization analysis

Kaur

Kumar

Sindhwani

et al. 2022

IJOEM

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PurposeDue to the financial disturbances created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the burden on the government exchequer, it is expected to see a rise in the knowledge base of the research corpus so far as the government's fiscal sustainability is concerned. Therefore, the present research examines a systematic quantitative analysis of public debt sustainability research by applying a bibliometric approach. Research also analyzes journals, institutions, countries and authors contributing to public debt sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThis paper scrutinizes the published scientific research on public debt sustainability based on the dataset of 535 articles from 1991 to 2021 obtained from the Scopus database. Biblioshiny (R-based application) and VoSviewer software were used to perform bibliometric analysis through Performance analysis and science mapping techniques. The authors combined co-citation analysis (CCA), bibliometric analysis, keyword co-occurrence analysis (KCA) and a conceptual thematic map of the most cited articles to find the intellectual structure.FindingsThe research identified three dominating clusters, e.g. fiscal sustainability and policy rules, empirical sustainability testing and debt and growth dynamics. Another finding was that most articles were analytical and empirical and few descriptive articles were found. Owing to the empirical nature of the domain, the issues concerning public debt sustainability have continued to change over the past decades for different economies, reflecting the complexity and diversity of economic structures of different economies at different times.Originality/valueThe insight of this article provides academicians and researchers with a more refined comprehension of the conceptual and intellectual structure of the research corpus. The present research complements the existing literature review studies by pushing the research towards emerging or less developed issues such as financial and debt crises.

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