Energy consumption and economic growth in South Africa reexamined: A nonparametric testing apporach

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 840-850

  Lin, Boqiang ^a,b   Wesseh Jr , Presley K ^b,c  

^a MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA   (Liberia)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Energy consumption; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BOOTSTRAP METHODOLOGIES; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY; GRANGER CAUSALITY; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; NON-PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TESTING; SOUTH AFRICA;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84906679284     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.005     Document Type: Review

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