This paper examines the nexus between financial development and energy consumption in South Africa. To determine the long run and short run relationship between financial development and energy consumption in South Africa, the paper uses an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag bounds test (ARDL) and...

This paper empirically investigates the causal relationship between energy prices and economic performance in South Africa by employing the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test technique for the period 1994 to 2019. The empirical evidence that was reviewed used a different...