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dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 …–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More … levels as they may achieve CO2 emissions reduction via energy conservation without negative long-run effects on economic …
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We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are … strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality …
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This paper is an innovative attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of crude oil prices. The main objective is to distinguish between short- and long-term effects of some covariates on oil prices. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach is applied to daily series spanning...
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they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows …
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Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later … household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
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How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We … study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February … 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK housing market. We find that the housing market barely reacted to a 60 …
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Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...
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unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …
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This paper investigates the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price movements and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. We propose the implementation of nonlinear vector smooth transition regression (VSTR) models which offer a greater flexibility when modelling the possible...
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The diversity of social interaction within economic communities affects productivity and growth, and is itself shaped by economic conditions. These reciprocal effects raise the possibility of multiple equilibria, of setting a socially polarized economy stagnating in poverty on a new path of...
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