Do government activities determine electricity consumption in Ghana? An empirical investigation

ASUAMAH YEBOAH, SAMUEL (2018): Do government activities determine electricity consumption in Ghana? An empirical investigation.

Abstract

The paper investigates the long-run relationship between government activities and electricity consumption using annual data collected from world development indicator for a period of 1971 to 2011 in Ghana. The paper adopts the autoregressive distributed lag model of co integration for the estimation. The estimation reveals both short run and long-run relationships between government expenditure and electricity consumption. The findings suggest that government activities explain electricity consumption in Ghana for the period under discussion, and could be considered as a policy variable in the management of electricity consumption.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Government expenditures; Electricity consumption; Co-integration; Short run; long run.
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H50 - General; H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures

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