How sensitive to time period sampling is the asymmetric price response specification in energy demand modelling?

Energy Economics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-109

  Adofo, Yaw Osei ^a   Evans, Joanne ^b   Hunt, Lester Charles ^b  

^a Electricity Company of Ghana Ltd   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric price responses; Energy demand modelling; Stability of estimates

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DEMANDS; OECD COUNTRIES; PRICE RECOVERY; PRICE RESPONSE; TIME-PERIODS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION;

COSTS;

ASYMMETRY; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY MARKET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; OECD; PRICE DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880599630     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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