Structural breaks and nonlinearity in US and UK public debts

Fredj Jawadi and Ricardo Sousa

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 20, issue 7, 653-657

Abstract: This article investigates the short-term dynamics of public debts in the United States and the United Kingdom over more than four decades. We check for structural changes in the data and assess nonlinearity and switching-regime hypotheses using several linearity tests. Our findings point to multiple structural breaks due to economic downturns, oil shocks and financial and political instability. We also identify different regimes for which the adjustment is asymmetric and nonlinear, in particular, since 2003 and around the Great Recession.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.727967

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