Revisiting energy consumption and GDP causality: Importance of a priori hypothesis testing, disaggregated data, and heterogeneous panels

Applied Energy

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-55

  Liddle, Brantley ^a,b   Lung, Sidney ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional dependence; Developed and developing countries; Economic growth; Energy consumption; Heterogeneous panels; Panel Granger causality

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS;

CROSS SECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HETEROGENEOUS PANELS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERCAPITA CONSUMPTION; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

DATA SET; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 84920911984     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.12.036     Document Type: Article

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