Energy consumption and real GDP in Asean

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the relationship between real GDP and energy consumption in ASEAN. The paper use the panel data collected from WorldBank from 1974 to 2014. The panel unit root tests, panel cointegration test and VECM Granger Causality test will be applied in this paper. The result showed that there is a long-run causality from real real GDP to energy consumption and short-run unidirection causality from real GDP to energy consumption. Besides that, there is positive effect of energy consumption, import, capital, human capital and negative effect of CO2 emission and export on real GDP in ASEAN.