Electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN / Ahmad Ghazali Ismail, Arlinah Abd Rashid & Azlina Hanif

The relationship and causality direction between electricity consumption and economic growth is an important issue in the fields of energy economics and policies towards energy use. Extensive literatures has discussed the issue, but the array of findings provides anything but consensus on either the...

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Main Authors: Abd Rashid, Arlinah, Hanif, Azlina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business & Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor 2017
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19357/2/AJ_AHMAD%20GHAZALI%20ISMAIL%20JEEIR%2017.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19357/
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Summary:The relationship and causality direction between electricity consumption and economic growth is an important issue in the fields of energy economics and policies towards energy use. Extensive literatures has discussed the issue, but the array of findings provides anything but consensus on either the existence of relations or direction of causality between the variables. This study extends research in this area by studying the long-run and causal relations between economic growth, electricity consumption, labour and capital based on the neo-classical one sector aggregate production technology mode using data of electricity consumption and real GDP for ASEAN from the year 1983 to 2012. The analysis is conducted using advanced panel estimation approaches and found no causality in the short run while in the long-run, the results indicate that there are bidirectional relationship among variables. This study provides supplementary evidences of relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in ASEAN.