Energy consumption, carbon emissions, and economic growth in India: Evidence from directed acyclic graphs

Economic Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 533-540

  Yang, Zihui ^a   Zhao, Yongliang ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Directed acyclic graphs; Economic growth; Energy consumption; India; Out of sample granger causality tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896543845     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.01.030     Document Type: Article

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