Renewable and nonrenewable energy production and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: a hidden cointegration analysis

Aviral Tiwari, Nicholas Apergis () and Olaolu Olayeni

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 9, 861-882

Abstract: The objective of this article is to investigate the hypothesis of asymmetric effects between economic growth and renewable and nonrenewable energy production. To this end, both the linear cointegration and the hidden cointegration methodology are employed, with the latter allowing a straightforward delimitation of the data in an economically sensible way. We test for the presence of hidden cointegration across 12 sub-Saharan African countries spanning the period 1971–2011. The empirical results confirm the growth hypothesis for a subset of countries, suggesting that their growth could be adversely affected by conservation policies, while for a second subgroup of countries they confirm the conservation hypothesis, indicating that conservation policies could enhance the growth process in these countries. The differentiation of the results could be captured entirely by the linear approach, indicating that the lack of cointegration between renewable energy production and economic growth found in previous studies may be due to failures to properly delimit the nonlinearity property in the data.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.982855

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