Cross-country convergence in energy and electricity consumption, 1971-2007

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1882-1887

  Mohammadi, Hassan ^a   Ram, Rati ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross country convergence; Electricity consumption; Energy consumption; Quantiles

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; CROSS-COUNTRY CONVERGENCE; DATA SETS; ELECTRICITY USAGE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY USAGE; GLOBAL CONVERGENCE; QUANTILE REGRESSION; QUANTILES; STRONG CONVERGENCE; WEAK CONVERGENCE;

ELECTRICITY;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CONVERGENCE; DATA SET; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84865652221     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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