The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Energy Consumption in MENA Region Selected Countries (system GMM approach)

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Article 4, Volume 22, Issue 10, March 2016, Pages 115-139   

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.22067/erd.v22i10.43929

Authors

mohammad alizadeh^{* 1}; Abolghasem Golkhandan²

¹lorestan

²Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to analysis the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on energy consumption in the MENA region selected countries during the period 1995-2011. For this purpose, used the model presented by Sadorsky (2012) and three indicators that measured ICT: the number of Internet users, the number of mobile lines and the number of telephone lines. Also, estimated and analyzed the short run and long run elasticities between the variables of the model using a system generalized method of moments (GMM-SYS). The results show that the development of ICT with each three measured indices, increased energy consumption per capita in MENA region selected countries in the short run and long run. So that a one percent increases in this indicator, average of energy consumption increases in the short run and long run respectively 0.007 and 0.089 percent.

Keywords

information and communication technology (ICT); Energy Consumption; MENA Countries; system generalized method of moments (GMM-SYS)

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