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ENERGY SOURCES PART B-ECONOMICS PLANNING AND POLICY
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages 853-858Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15567249.2017.1314393
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Biomass; bootstrap causality; dependency; economic growth; energy consumption; heterogeneity
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This study aims to investigate the economic efficiency of biomass energy consumption for the period 1980-2013 in top 10 biomass energy consumer countries. For this purpose, this study uses both augmented mean group (AMG) estimator and panel bootstrap causality method which are suitable for dependent and heterogeneous panels. The results of AMG estimator show that economic growth is positively affected by biomass energy use in Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. In addition, empirical findings from panel bootstrap causality test show that the growth hypothesis is valid for Brazil, Germany, India, and Italy; the conservation hypothesis is supported in Sweden; the feedback hypothesis is confirmed in China and the United States; and the neutrality hypothesis is valid in Finland, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
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