A panel study of nuclear energy consumption and economic growth

Nicholas Apergis () and James E. Payne ()

Energy Economics, 2010, vol. 32, issue 3, pages 545-549

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth for sixteen countries within a multivariate panel framework over the period 1980-2005. Pedroni's (1999, 2004) heterogeneous panel cointegration test reveals there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between real GDP, nuclear energy consumption, real gross fixed capital formation, and the labor force with the respective coefficients positive and statistically significant. The results of the panel vector error correction model finds bidirectional causality between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth in the short-run while unidirectional causality from nuclear energy consumption to economic growth in the long-run. Thus, the results provide support for the feedback hypothesis associated with the relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth.

Keywords: Nuclear; energy; Growth; Panel; Granger-causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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