Impact of Trade and Financial Globalization on Renewable Energy in EU Transition Economies: A Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Test

Yilmaz Bayar, Mahmut Unsal Sasmaz and Mehmet Hilmi Ozkaya
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Yilmaz Bayar: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Bandirma/Balikesir 102000, Turkey
Mahmut Unsal Sasmaz: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Usak University, Usak 64000, Turkey
Mehmet Hilmi Ozkaya: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Usak University, Usak 64000, Turkey

Energies, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: The globalized world has experienced significant environmental degradation together with raising global production and population. In this context, the employment of renewable energy use has become crucial for a sustainable environment and development. In the research, the mutual causality among renewable energy, trade and financial globalization, real GDP per capita, and CO 2 emissions in EU transition economies experiencing the integration with global economy was explored through bootstrap panel Granger causality test for the period of 1995–2015. The causality analysis revealed a unilateral causality from trade globalization to renewable energy in Estonia, Latvia, and Slovenia, and from renewable energy to trade globalization in Croatia and Lithuania. However, no significant causality between financial globalization and renewable energy was revealed. On the other side, a unilateral causality from CO 2 emissions to renewable energy in Lithuania and Slovenia, and from renewable energy to CO 2 emissions in Czechia, Hungary, and Latvia and a reciprocal causality between renewable energy to CO 2 emissions in Romania and Slovakia and a unilateral causality from real GDP per capita to renewable energy in Czechia, Romania, and Slovenia was discovered in the causality analysis.

Keywords: trade globalization; financial globalization; CO 2 emissions; real GDP per capita; renewable energy; bootstrap panel Granger causality; EU transition economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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