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The Hydroelectricity Consumption and Economic Growth Nexus: A Long Time Span Analysis

2017; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ; Volume: 6; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5380/rber.v6i4.49181

ISSN

2237-9711

Autores

Matheus Koengkan,

Tópico(s)

Global trade and economics

Resumo

The objective of this article is analyze the nexus between hydroelectricity consumption and economic growth in seven Latin America countries in the period from 1966 to 2015, using an auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) with methodology. The results suggest the existence of feedback hypothesis in short-run, where the hydroelectricity consumption and economic growth are interrelated.

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