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On the Use of Panel Cointegration Tests in Energy Economics

Westerlund, Joakim LU ; Thuraisamy, Kannan and Sharma, Susan (2015) In Energy Economics 50. p.359-363
Abstract
There is a burgeoning literature based on using panel cointegration techniques to

study the relationship between energy consumption and GDP. Most panel cointegration

tests employed take no cointegration as the null hypothesis. The current paper illustrates

how a rejection by such a test cannot be taken as evidence of cointegration for the panel

as a whole, a fact that seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the literature. Hence,

even if the no cointegration null is rejected, this evidence not enough to ensure that the

relationship can be meaningfully estimated, as most (if not all) estimators in the literature

require that the panel is cointegrated as a whole.
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Panel data, Cointegration, Energy consumption.
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Energy Economics
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50
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359 - 363
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Elsevier
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0140-9883
DOI
10.1016/j.eneco.2014.08.020
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study the relationship between energy consumption and GDP. Most panel cointegration<br/><br>
tests employed take no cointegration as the null hypothesis. The current paper illustrates<br/><br>
how a rejection by such a test cannot be taken as evidence of cointegration for the panel<br/><br>
as a whole, a fact that seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the literature. Hence,<br/><br>
even if the no cointegration null is rejected, this evidence not enough to ensure that the<br/><br>
relationship can be meaningfully estimated, as most (if not all) estimators in the literature<br/><br>
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  series       = {{Energy Economics}},
  title        = {{On the Use of Panel Cointegration Tests in Energy Economics}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.eneco.2014.08.020}},
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  year         = {{2015}},
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