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. 2022 May;29(24):36189-36207.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-18601-8. Epub 2022 Jan 21.

Export quality, economic growth, and renewable-nonrenewable energy use: non-linear evidence through regime shifts

Faik Bilgili  1 , Sevda Kuşkaya  2 , Fatma Ünlü  3 , Pelin Gençoğlu  4
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Export quality, economic growth, and renewable-nonrenewable energy use: non-linear evidence through regime shifts

Faik Bilgili et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 May.

Abstract

Since export has a key role in economic growth in terms of national production quantity, export quality can be considered another important factor regarding the revenue from the export product. Hence, both export and export quality can contribute to the economic growth process positively when the countries' terms of trade have moved in a favorable direction from this point of view, it is essential to examine the relationship between the energy-growth nexus and export quality. Although available seminal studies are monitoring the energy-growth nexus, there exists a limited number of works employing the export quality. Besides, one might claim that there exists no research on how the terms of trade (export quality) alter the economic growth and energy use through regime shifts. Markov regime-shifting models estimate (a) the impact of export and terms of trade on growth, and (b) the effect of growth on the use of fossil energy and renewable energy for the USA at regime 1 and regime 2 for the period 1980:Q4-2019:Q2. After conducting the non-linear analyses, this paper (i) reveals the estimated parameters varying from one regime to another regime through transition probabilities, (ii) finds evidence that (a) export and export quality growths affect positively GDP growth, (b) GDP growth increases fossil fuel consumption growth, (c) renewable energy growth increases at decreasing rate due to GDP growth, and (iii) yields relevant energy-environmental policy proposals by underlying the prominence of terms of trade within growth-energy nexus.

Keywords: Export; Export quality; Fossil fuels usage; GDP growth; Markov regime-switching; Renewables consumption.

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