While Germany and Japan are going through major energy reforms, natural gas consumption is taking a growing share in their energy supply. This paper adopts a Machine Learning approach to assess the causal link between natural gas consumption and economic growth for both economies. A Causal...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth in Switzerland over the period 1970–2018. We use data on capital, labour, and exports within a multivariate framework. Starting from the consideration that Switzerland has decided to phase...

This paper aims to explore the impact of transportation infrastructure on economic growth in China at different levels: aggregate and regional. Using a time series approach and panel data for 28 regions (where there are provinces also) over the time 1990–2017, the experimental findings...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship among iron and steel industries, air pollution and economic growth in China. Using monthly time series from 2000 to 2017, we adopt a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) approach. The empirical results show that the relationship between economic...

This paper examines the relationship among real GDP, CO2 emissions, and energy use in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Using annual data for the years 1960-2013, stationarity, structural breaks, and cointegration tests have been conducted. The empirical evidence strongly...