Electricity consumption and economic growth in transition countries: A revisit using bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis

Energy Economics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 325-330

  Wolde Rufael, Yemane ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cross sectional dependency; Economic growth; Electricity consumption; Panel bootstrap causality; Slope heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL DEPENDENCY; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; PANEL BOOTSTRAP CAUSALITY; SLOPE HETEROGENEITY;

ECONOMICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; HETEROGENEITY; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

BELARUS; BULGARIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 84901036512     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.04.019     Document Type: Article

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