Causal independence between energy consumption and economic growth in Liberia: Evidence from a non-parametric bootstrapped causality test

Energy Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 518-527

  Wesseh Jr , Presley K ^a   Zoumara, Babette ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Energy consumption; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUE; CAUSAL INDEPENDENCE; CAUSALITY TEST; CLEAN ENERGY SOURCES; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENERGY EXPANSION; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; LONG-TERM STRATEGY; LOW ENERGIES; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; NON-PARAMETRIC;

CARBON; EMPLOYMENT; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ECONOMICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TARIFF STRUCTURE;

LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84866923344     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.053     Document Type: Article

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