The Economics and Econometrics of the Energy-Growth Nexus

Conclusions

Angeliki N. Menegaki^*,**

^*    Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece ^**    TEI STEREAS ELLADAS, University of Applied Sciences, Lamia, Greece

The energy-growth nexus (EGN) is a research field that has attracted, keeps attracting, and will be attracting attention by numerous academics and researchers, because it is a very timely topic that causes vivid debates. Despite the many years since the first paper by Kraft and Kraft in 1978, little consensus has been reached since then in the field. This is because the EGN field has not only been deepening (containing new methods and data), but also widening (using more variables and various countries). If one keeps doing both actions at the same time, results would not be as clear, as it ...