Numerous studies have assumed that the price elasticity of electricity demand remains constant through the years that is industrial consumers behave the same way to price fluctuations regardless the actual price level. This paper proposes that the price elasticity of industrial electricity...

This paper revisits the causality relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in South Africa for the period 1971-2009 using annual data and takes into consideration time variation in causal relationships using bootstrap rolling Granger non-causality tests. Full-sample...

This study reexamines the causal link between electricity consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in the BRICS countries (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) for the period 1990-2010, using panel causality analysis, which accounts for dependency and heterogeneity across...