In The Context of ARDL Bound Test Approach, Energy Consumptıon and Energy Prices Effects on Quality of Life
Abstract
Energy has become one of the basic requirements for human welfare and for the sustainability of economic activities. Empirical results from many studies have shown that energy consumption increases economic growth and welfare. There are very few studies in the literature examining the relationship between energy consumption, energy prices and quality of life. The aim of this study is examining the hypothesis of the necessity of increasing the use of energy in order to reduce poverty and quality of life for Turkey. The study contributes to the literature due to the small number of studies conducted in this field and the fact that it investigates the relationship between energy consumption, energy prices and human development index with the help of the Autoregressive Distributed Lags model using current data for the period 1990-2019. Findings demonstrate that energy consumption is important for increasing human welfare and has little response to energy price changes in the long term. In the short term, it was found that the human development index was affected positively by energy consumption in the current period, and negatively affected in one lag, but neutral to energy prices.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Economics
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 31, 2021
Submission Date
September 22, 2021
Acceptance Date
November 30, 2021
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Volume: 3 Number: 3