Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/198830 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7470
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines the statistical properties of energy consumption in the GCC countries applying fractional integration methods to annual data from 1980 to 2014. The results indicate that both the raw and the logged series exhibit a (statistically significant) linear time trend in the case of Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, and the raw series only in the case of Saudi Arabia. Mean reversion (i.e., statistical evidence of d < 1) is found in the case of Bahrain for both the raw and logged data, and in Qatar for the logged series. In the remaining cases, the I(1) hypothesis cannot be rejected except for the logged data in Saudi Arabia, since d is found to be statistically higher than 1 in that country. The implication of these findings is that in the case of Bahrain and Qatar exogenous shocks to energy consumption have transitory effects, which disappear in the long run without the need for policy action, whilst the permanent nature of the effects of shocks elsewhere means that appropriate policies have to be designed to restore equilibrium.
Subjects: 
fractional integration
energy consumption
GCC countries
JEL: 
C00
C22
E21
Q40
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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