Clean energy-growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-sectionally dependent heterogeneous panel with structural breaks

Mahamat Hamit-Haggar ()

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Abstract: This paperexaminestheexistenceandnatureofacausalityrelationshipbetweencleanenergycon- sumption andeconomicgrowthforapanelofelevensub-SaharanAfricancountriesovertheperiod 1971–2007.Weapplythepanelunitroottestthataccountsforthepresenceofmultiplestructuralbreaks [13] and thenewly-developedpanelcointegrationmethodologywhichallowsforcross-sectiondepen- dence andmultiplestructuralbreaks [38] as wellasabootstrap-correctedGrangercausalitytest.The estimation resultsshowthatthereiscointegrationbetweencleanenergyconsumptionandeconomic growth.Further,theresultsfromthepanelcausalitytestsindicatethatthereisindeedaunidirectional Grangercausal flowfromcleanenergyconsumptiontoeconomicgrowth

Keywords: Clean; energy; Output; growth; Cross-sectional; dependence; Structuralbreaks; Bootstrapped; Causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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Published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, 57, pp.1237 - 1244. ⟨10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.161⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.161

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