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Andrea F. Presbitero
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 131
Citations - 4256
Andrea F. Presbitero is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt & External debt. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 128 publications receiving 3600 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea F. Presbitero include Center for Economic and Policy Research & International Monetary Fund.
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Public debt and economic growth: Is there a causal effect?
TL;DR: This article used an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a causal effect on economic growth in a sample of OECD countries and found that there is no evidence that public debt is associated with economic growth.
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Public debt and growth: Heterogeneity and non-linearity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the long-run relationship between public debt and growth in a large panel of countries, and find some support for a negative relationship and no evidence for a similar, let alone common, debt threshold within countries.
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Banks, Distances and Firms' Financing Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the impact that these spatial diffusion-concentration phenomena had on the financing constraints of Italian firms over the period 1996-2003, and show that greater functional distance stiffened financing constraints, especially for small firms, while smaller operational distance did not always enhance credit availability.
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Public Debt and Economic Growth in Advanced Economies: A Survey
Ugo Panizza,Andrea F. Presbitero +1 more
TL;DR: The authors surveys the recent literature on the links between public debt and economic growth in advanced economies and finds that theoretical models yield ambiguous results, and that there is no paper that can make a strong case for a causal relationship going from debt to economic growth.
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Competition and Relationship Lending: Friends or Foes?
TL;DR: In this article, the organizational structure of local credit markets has been investigated and it was shown that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship lending in markets where large and outof-market banks are predominant.