The electricity consumption and economic growth nexus: Evidence from Greece

Energy Policy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 798-808

  Polemis, Michael L ^a   Dagoumas, Athanasios S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Causality; Cointegration; Electricity consumption

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE DESIGNS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CAUSALITY; COINTEGRATION; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; GREEK ENERGY SYSTEM; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION MODEL;

ELASTICITY; ERROR CORRECTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEMAND ELASTICITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

GREECE;

EID: 84884980833     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.086     Document Type: Article

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