Modelling aggregate domestic electricity demand in Ghana: An autoregressive distributed lag bounds cointegration approach

Energy Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 530-537

  Adom, Philip Kofi ^a   Bekoe, William ^a   Akoena, Sesi Kutri Komla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Aggregate domestic electricity demand; ARDL Bounds cointegration; Ghana

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; COINTEGRATION; DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; DRIVING FORCES; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; ELECTRICITY EFFICIENCIES; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; GHANA; GROWTH TRENDS; INDUSTRY EFFICIENCY; PER CAPITA; POLICY OPTIONS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

AGGREGATES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICITY; INDUSTRY;

AGGLOMERATION;

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; URBANIZATION;

GHANA;

EID: 84856326702     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

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