Is energy consumption effective to spur economic growth in Pakistan? New evidence from bounds test to level relationships and Granger causality tests

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2310-2319

  Shahbaz, Muhammad ^a   Zeshan, Muhammad ^b   Afza, Talat ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Energy consumption; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865327409     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.06.027     Document Type: Article

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