Is there really Granger causality between energy use and output?

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Stern, David
Bruns, Stephan B.
Gross, Christian

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Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

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We carry out a meta-analysis of the very large literature on Granger causality tests between energy use and economic output to determine if there is a genuine effect in this literature or whether the large number of apparently significant results is due to publication and misspecification bias. Our model extends the standard meta-regression model for detecting genuine effects using the statistical power trace in the presence of publication biases by controlling for the tendency to over-fit vector auto regression models in small samples. These over-fitted models have inflated type 1 errors. We find that models that include energy prices as a control variable find a genuine effect from output to energy use in the long-run. A genuine causal effect also seems apparent from energy to output when employment is controlled for and the Johansen procedure is used.

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Bruns, Stephan B., Gross, C., Stern, David, I., 2013, Is There Really Granger Causality Between Energy Use and Output, Crawford School Working Paper No. 13 - 07, March 2013, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra

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The Energy Journal

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