The relationship between urbanization, economic growth and energy consumption in China: An econometric perspective analysis

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5609-5627

  Zhao, Yabo ^a   Wang, Shaojian ^b,c,d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Energy consumption; cointegration test; Granger causality test; Impulse response analysis; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENERGY USE; ERROR CORRECTION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84934880918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7055609     Document Type: Article

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