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Sectoral Debt Capacity and Business Cycles: Developing Asia and the World Economy

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  • Han, Bada

    (Bank of Korea)

  • Ahmed, Rashad

    (US Department of the Treasury)

  • Jinjarak, Yothin

    (Asian Development Bank)

  • Aizenman, Joshua

    (University of Southern California)

Abstract

This paper reviews the patterns of sectoral debts and growth and the mechanisms explaining the adverse effects of debt burdens on growth rates. The empirical analysis covers a sample of 55 emerging and frontier market economies. Future economic growth is more sensitive to rising household debt than corporate debt. However, these effects are highly heterogenous across economies and depend on relative income. For the developing economies with a gross domestic product per capita in 2010 below $10,000 (purchasing power parity-adjusted in 2017 international dollar), the coefficients of all types of sectoral debts are negative and significant at least at the 5% level. For developing economies at higher income levels, household debts matter more than other sectoral debts for subsequent economic growth.

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  • Han, Bada & Ahmed, Rashad & Jinjarak, Yothin & Aizenman, Joshua, 2023. "Sectoral Debt Capacity and Business Cycles: Developing Asia and the World Economy," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 681, Asian Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:adbewp:0681
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    Keywords

    household debts; corporate debts; public debts; financial stability; credit cycles;
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    JEL classification:

    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt

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