Abstract
This paper introduces a growth model that considers the indicator of economic complexity as a measure of capabilities for exporting the high value-added (sophisticated) products. Empirically, the paper analyzes the effects of the renewable and the non-renewable energy consumption on the economic growth in the panel data of 29 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for the period from 1990 to 2013. For this purpose, the paper considers the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and the panel quantile regression (PQR) estimations. The paper finds that not only the economic complexity, but also both the non-renewable and the renewable energy consumption are positively associated with a higher rate of economic growth.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 27-34 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Energy |
| Volume | 153 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jun 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors express their deepest gratitude to a Referee of this journal for her/his comments and suggestions that enhanced the merit of this work. Special thanks also go to the Editor who gave us the insightful comments. All remaining errors are ours. The corresponding author thanks the financial support from the National Social Science Fund of China ( 16BJY052 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.