Cointegration of electricity consumption and GDP in the presence of smooth structural changes

Vladimir Arčabić, Tomislav Gelo, Robert Sonora and Jurica Šimurina

Energy Economics, 2021, vol. 97, issue C

Abstract: This paper analyzes the cointegration of electricity consumption, prices, and GDP as well as the long-run price and income elasticities for a sample of European Union (EU) countries. We control for smooth structural changes in the data using recently developed unit root and autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) cointegration tests, which approximate an unknown number of smooth breaks with a flexible Fourier function. Structural breaks in electricity consumption may exist in EU countries because of activities associated with the European Energy Union and country-specific idiosyncracies. Our results indicate that the Fourier cointegration test rejects the null hypothesis of no cointegration more often in comparison to the standard ADL test. Elasticity estimates show clear differences between old and new member states when structural breaks are ignored, but less so when using structural breaks methods.

Keywords: Electricity consumption; Cointegration; Structural breaks; Nonlinear models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C51 Q41 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105196

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