Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail

The relationship and causality direction between electricity consumption and economic growth is an important issue in the fields of energy economics and policies towards energy use. Extensive literatures has discussed the issue, but the array of findings provide anything but consensus on either the...

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Main Author: Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling uitm-189332018-02-05T04:25:56Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18933/ Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali Consumption. Demand (Economic theory) ASEAN The relationship and causality direction between electricity consumption and economic growth is an important issue in the fields of energy economics and policies towards energy use. Extensive literatures has discussed the issue, but the array of findings provide anything but consensus on either the existence of relations or direction of causality between the variables. This study extends research in this area by studying the long-run and causal relations between economic growth, electricity consumption, labor and capital based on the neo-classical one sector aggregate production technology model. The study uses electricity consumption and real GDP measures the economic growth of these countries. These relations are analyzed for ASEAN countries as a whole and also for a group of six ASEAN developing countries. The analysis is conducted using advanced panel estimation approaches. The Westerlund co-integration test and panel Auto Regressive Distribution Lags (ARDL) estimation technique found no long run cointegration in both groups. Results from the panel Granger Causality method found no causality in the short run between energy consumption and economic growth in all ASEAN countries' groups. However, in the long-run, the results indicate that there are bidirectional relationship in group of all ASEAN countries. This study provides supplementary evidences of relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries. 2016 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18933/1/TM_AHMAD%20GHAZALI%20ISMAIL%20BM%2016_5.pdf Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali (2016) Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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ASEAN
spellingShingle Consumption. Demand (Economic theory)
ASEAN
Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali
Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
description The relationship and causality direction between electricity consumption and economic growth is an important issue in the fields of energy economics and policies towards energy use. Extensive literatures has discussed the issue, but the array of findings provide anything but consensus on either the existence of relations or direction of causality between the variables. This study extends research in this area by studying the long-run and causal relations between economic growth, electricity consumption, labor and capital based on the neo-classical one sector aggregate production technology model. The study uses electricity consumption and real GDP measures the economic growth of these countries. These relations are analyzed for ASEAN countries as a whole and also for a group of six ASEAN developing countries. The analysis is conducted using advanced panel estimation approaches. The Westerlund co-integration test and panel Auto Regressive Distribution Lags (ARDL) estimation technique found no long run cointegration in both groups. Results from the panel Granger Causality method found no causality in the short run between energy consumption and economic growth in all ASEAN countries' groups. However, in the long-run, the results indicate that there are bidirectional relationship in group of all ASEAN countries. This study provides supplementary evidences of relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries.
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author Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali
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author_sort Ismail, Ahmad Ghazali
title Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
title_short Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
title_full Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
title_fullStr Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
title_full_unstemmed Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN countries / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail
title_sort electricity consumption and economic growth in asean countries / ahmad ghazali ismail
publishDate 2016
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18933/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18933/1/TM_AHMAD%20GHAZALI%20ISMAIL%20BM%2016_5.pdf
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