Governments can issue public debt for both good and bad reasons. The former include intertemporal tax smoothing, fiscal … of time inconsistency of public finances and minimize debt accumulation by setting debt limits. Despite the theoretical … that fiscal rules have on public debt, this paper studies the effect of different types of rules on debt behavior and their …

State-contingent government debt has been proposed as a way to reduce costly debt crisis. However, markets for this … type of debt remain very limited, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. This paper describes a new database … covering state-contingent government debt issued between 1863 and 2020. Based on these data, this paper shows stylized facts …

Average gross general government debt-to-GDP ratios in advanced economies have almost reached their highest levels …

the influence of public debt on renewable energy consumption (REC) in a panel of 29 SSA countries, in full and sub … squares estimator was applied to achieve the goal of the study. Overall, our findings indicate that public debt, carbon … to improve the debt-financed funding for the development of the renewable energy sector in SSA. …

Our study assesses financial development and debt status impact on energy efficiency in Nigeria as a developing economy … confirms the long-run nexus between energy efficiency, financial development and total debt stock. Furthermore, the ARDL …-run energy efficiency. Total debt stock limits energy efficiency in Nigeria in short and long-run periods. The environmental …

Prompted by the renewable energy funding challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) amid surging public debt in the region …, this study investigates the moderating role of governance quality in the relationship between public debt and REC in the … region using the Feasible Generalized Least Squares. The study established that public debt positively impacts REC, but the …

The combination of rising debt levels, poor electricity access, and environmental deterioration could threaten the … examine annual data from 39 SSA economies between 2005 and 2018. The key findings indicate that public debt negatively …

Amid Nigeria's economic growth and energy challenges, the escalating public debt levels and persistent energy poverty … debt and efforts to address energy poverty inadvertently contribute to or alleviate ecological imbalances within the … country. Hence, this research investigates the effect of public debt and energy poverty on the load capacity factor (LCF) in …

Three major global crises since 2008 have pushed up public and external debt ratios and associated risks across much of … Asia and the Pacific. This is confirmed by debt ratio projections and evidence of widening pockets of vulnerability picked … up by regional heat maps in this paper. By and large, the outlook is not yet suggestive of a widespread debt crisis …

little is known about the connection between public debt and energy poverty, particularly for developing regions of the world …. This study clearly illustrates the nexus between public debt and energy poverty, focusing on thirty SSA nations from the … energy poverty index was developed using the principal component analysis and estimated in relation to public debt via the …