dc.contributor.author |
El Sheikh Taha, Reem Mohamad |
dc.date |
2014 |
dc.date.accessioned |
2015-02-03T10:35:08Z |
dc.date.available |
2015-02-03T10:35:08Z |
dc.date.issued |
2014 |
dc.date.submitted |
2014 |
dc.identifier.other |
b18286379 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/10090 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Economics, 2014. T:6094 |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Isabella Ruble, Associate Professor, Economics ; Members of Committee : Dr. Simon Neaime, Professor, Economics ; Dr. Sami Karaki, Professor, Electric and Computer Engineering. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89) |
dc.description.abstract |
Energy in general is an important component in economic growth. Specifically, natural gas plays a key role for economic development. Thus, several studies have investigated the link between natural gas consumption (NGC), economic growth (GDP) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This paper employs the panel unit root tests, panel cointegration methods and panel causality test to examine the direction of causality between NGC, GDP and CO2 emissions for 10 MENA countries covering the annual period 1980-2011. The finding of this study shows that there is no causal relationship between any of the variables in the short run. However, in the long run, there is a unidirectional causality running from NGC and CO2 emissions to GDP. Besides, to deal with heterogeneity in different economies and with endogeneity bias in the regressors, this study uses both the FMOLS and DOLS estimation techniques to confirm the long run relationship between the relevant variables. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (xii, 89 leaves) ; 30cm |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
T:006094 AUBNO |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Natural gas -- Middle East. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Natural gas -- Africa, North. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects -- Middle East. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects -- Africa, North. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Gross domestic product -- Middle East. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Gross domestic product -- Africa, N |
dc.title |
Natural gas consumption, economic growth and carbon emissions :evidence from panel data for MENA region - |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Economics |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut |