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The Electricity Consumption in a Rentier State: Do Institutions Matter ?
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Selmi, Refk; Shahbaz, Muhammad - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
The core focus of this paper is to assess the relationship between the electricity consumption and institutions within … variables are cointegrated in the long-run. We find that institutions play an important role to explain this cointegration. The … response of electricity demand is increasingly negative due to the one standard deviation shock in institutions. This …
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Short-run and Long-run causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in a small open economy
HAMDI, Helmi; SBIA, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between electricity consumption and GDP growth for the kingdom of Bahrain during the period 1980–2008. By performing an error-correction model, our results reveal that electricity consumption and GDP are cointegrated. The granger...
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The Dynamics of Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth:A Revisit Study of Their Causality in Pakistan
Muhammad, Shahbaz; Lean, Hooi Hooi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study revisits the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Pakistan by controlling and investigating the effects of two major production factors - capital and labor. The empirical evidence confirms the cointegration among the variables and indicates that...
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Determinants of the Household Electricity Consumption: A Case Study of Delhi
Tewathia, Nidhi - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 4 (2014) 3, pp. 337-348
Electricity has attained a very important place in every household on this planet. It is a major contributor towards improvement of the standard of living of any individual, family and society at large. This paper aims to find out the monthly average household electricity consumption and...
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Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis
Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 210-212
Using a unique data set that merges an electric utility’s residential customer monthly electricity consumption in 2008 with household level data on demographics, structure and neighborhood characteristics and the political party of registration for the head of household, this paper documents...
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Electricity Consumption, Financial Development and Economic Growth Nexus in Pakistan: A Visit
Shahbaz, Muhammad - In: Bulletin of Energy Economics (BEE) 3 (2015) 2, pp. 48-65
This study explores a relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Pakistan by incorporating financial development within the neoclassical production function. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach has been applied to data from 1972-2012. To...
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Functional Forms and the Demand for Commercial Electricity in the U.S
Hsing, Yu; Jamal, A.M.M. - In: Bulletin of Energy Economics (BEE) 3 (2015) 2, pp. 75-81
This paper examines the demand for commercial electricity in the U.S. and focuses on the functional form. The results show that the linear-log form performs better than the log-log, linear and log-linear forms. The demand for commercial electricity is positively affected by real GDP, the real...
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Electricity consumption and economic growth causality revisited: evidence from Turkey
Muhammad, Shahbaz; Ilhan, Ozturk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The study reconsiders the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth by incorporating financial development, capital and labor as important factors of production using augmented production function in Turkey for the period of 1971-2009. In doing so, we applied ARDL bounds...
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The Nexus between Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: New Insights from Meta Analysis
Bouoiyour, jamal; Selmi, Refk; Ozturk, Ilhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Although many factors have been identified to explain the nexus between electricity consumption and economic growth, the empirical evidence is rather mixed. Given these contradictory conclusions, we try to find out which outcome the meta analysis would support. To tackle this issue, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113858
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Electricity Consumption, Financial Development and Economic Growth Nexus: A Revisit Study of Their Causality in Pakistan
Muhammad, Shahbaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study contributes to energy economic literature by incorporating financial development in neo-classical production function to investigate the electricity consumption and economic growth nexus in case of Pakistan. ARDL bounds testing approach has been applied to examine cointegration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404633