Electricity consumption and economic growth: Exploring panel-specific differences

Energy Policy

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 264-277

  Karanfil, Fatih ^a,b   Li, Yuanjing ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^d IPAG Business School ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Electricity consumption; Electricity dependence; Panel cointegration; Urbanization; Vector error correction models

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; PANEL CO INTEGRATIONS; URBANIZATION; VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION MODEL;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY USE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; URBANIZATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ERROR CORRECTION; OECD;

EID: 84933182965     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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