TÜRKİYE’DE EKONOMİK BÜYÜME İLE ELEKTRİK TÜKETİMİ İLİŞKİSİ: SINIR TESTİ YAKLAŞIMI

This paper investigates relationship between economic growth and electricity consumption for Turkey over the period 1974-2004. As economic growth and electricity consumption variables used in empirical analysis was different order of integration ( I(0) and I(1) ) we employed bound test approach. We found cointegration relationship between the variables and in short run there is positive relationship between the variables however in long run there is negative relationship.