Electricity demand, GDP and employment: Evidence from Italy

Frontiers in Energy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-40

  Magazzino, Cosimo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

causality; cointegration; electricity demand; energy policies; GDP; Italy; labor force; stationarity; structural breaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897601354     PISSN: 20951701     EISSN: 20951698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11708-014-0296-8     Document Type: Article

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