Are fluctuations in electricity consumption per capita transitory? Evidence from developed and developing economies

Are Fluctuations in Energy Consumption per Capita Transitory? Evidence from a Panel of Pacific Island Countries

This study applies the panel stationarity test developed by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al 2005. Breaking the panels: An application to GDP per capita. Econometrics Journal 8, 159-175] to examine the stationarity of energy consumption per capita for a panel of 13 Pacific Island countries over the period 1980 to 2005. This test has the advantage that it allows for multiple structural breaks at unknow...

Are Output Fluctuations Transitory?

According to the conventional view of the business cycle, fluctuations in output represent temporary deviations from trend. The purpose of this paper is to question this conventional view. If fluctuations in output are dominated by temporary deviations from the natural rate of output, then an unexpected change in output today should not substantially change one's forecast of output in, say, fiv...

fundamental water consumption per capita in varamin

one of the most important parameters essential in different water supplies, treatment, transfer and distribution projects, is water consumption per capita. but unfortunately in many cases, statistics and date available in texts or irrelevant samplings are used. varamin is a region located in south east of tehran. among the most important problems in this region, insufficiency of personnel prolo...

Per capita alcohol consumption and sickness absence in Norway.

BACKGROUND There is only one previous study addressing the relationship between population drinking and sickness absence. That study, based on Swedish time-series data, showed a statistically significant relationship between per capita alcohol consumption and the male sickness absence rate. Estimates suggested that a 1-l increase in consumption was associated with a 13% increase in sickness abs...

Environmental Scanning in Developed and Developing Economies