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threat of war by capitulating on its nuclear weapons ambitions. We find that it is always possible to generate such a threat … international community feels about a nuclear armed Iran relative to its own costs from a possible war. We do not claim that this …
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nuclear energy in electricity production into account. We adopt the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to … from nuclear energy to CO2 emissions statistically provides evidence on the important role of nuclear energy in reducing CO …
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Energy has been universally recognized as one of the most important inputs for economic growth and human development. There is a strong two-way relationship between economic development and energy consumption. On one hand, growth of an economy, with its global competitiveness, hinges on the...
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Increasing the renewable energy share in national energy mix remains one of the major energy policy goals across many … economies. This paper assesses the roles and potentials of renewable energy sources in less-developed economies while citing … Nepal as an example. Renewable energy has a significant role to play in the electrification of rural areas in developing …
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Starting from the failure of the R&D-patents traditional relationship, when time-series and/or within industry dimensions are included in the empirical analysis, the present work tries to contribute to the empirical literature in two directions. Firstly, it perform a Granger causality test on...
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This paper examined the role of export in the economic growth process in Nigeria. Time series data ranging from 1970 to 2009 was used and the study employs unit root testing, co-integration analysis and VAR Granger Causality/Exogeneity Wald Tests to analyze annual time series data from Nigeria....
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This study investigates whether there is statistical evidence for a causal relationship between federal government expenditures and growth in real per-capita GDP in the Nigeria, using long and up to date available time series data (1961-2011). After studying the time-series properties of these...
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The main aim of this contribution is an analysis of the causal relationship between the total energy consumption in the Polish economy and GDP. In order to assure the correctness of computations a third variable – employment – was included in the dataset. Calculations performed for the...
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literature. Evidence is found in favour of cointegration among electricity generation from renewable sources, real gross domestic … lag (ARDL) framework. Evidence from Granger causality tests show that unidirectional causality is running from renewable … renewable electricity production, inward foreign direct investment, real income and population. The joint short- and long …
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This paper tests the causal relationship between electricity consumption per capita and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for Brazil, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa for the period 1971–2009. To reach this goal, we use panel cointegration analysis and Granger causality tests....
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