Energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, information and communications technology, and gross domestic product in Iranian economic sectors: A panel causality analysis

By Zahra Dehghan Shabani, R. Shahnazi. Energy, 2019

321 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Information and communications technology (ICT) has different effects on energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in economic sectors, nevertheless, sectoral analysis of ICT effects is not addressed in the previous literature, the novelty of this article is filling this gap. This study investigated the short- and long-run causality between energy consumption, gross domestic product (GDP), CO2 emissions, and ICT in Iranian economic sectors over 2002–2013. Dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimator was used to estimate the long-run relationships among the aforementioned variables. The empirical findings confirmed the presence of an environmental Kuznets curve in all the sectors, the positive effect of ICT on CO2 in the industrial sector, and the negative effect of ICT on CO2 emissions in the transportation and services sectors. The panel error correction model was employed to examine Granger causality between each pair of variables. ICT is the cause of energy consumption in the industry. Furthermore, the results suggested the existence of bidirectional short-run causality between ICT and CO2 in the industrial and transportation sectors and a unidirectional causal relationship between ICT and CO2 in the services sector. Finally, there is unidirectional long-run causality running from ICT, GDP, and energy consumption to CO2 emissions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3d81ac6632b6c4ad769d81f26cd057bffaa60ca7

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Avik Sinha
2. Tuhin Sengupta
3. Tanaya Saha
4. Berna Aydoğan
5. G. Vardar
6. Muhammad Shahbaz
7. Arshian Sharif
8. Umer Shahzad

In Marketing

1. Avik Sinha
2. Tuhin Sengupta
3. Berna Aydoğan
4. G. Vardar

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Tuhin Sengupta
2. Avik Sinha
3. Berna Aydoğan
4. Tanaya Saha
5. G. Vardar
6. Muhammad Shahbaz

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating the role of renewable energy, economic growth and agriculture on CO2 emission in E7 countries (2020, result): “These results support the findings of Hamit-Haggar (2012), Farhani and Shahbaz (2014), Bölük and Mert (2015), Ben Jebli, Ben Youssef, and Ozturk (2016), Pablo-Romero, Cruz, and Barata (2017), Zafeiriou and Azam (2017) and Shabani and Shahnazi (2019).”
• Technology policy and environmental quality at crossroads: Designing SDG policies for select Asia Pacific countries (2020, background): “Shabani and Shahnazi (2019) conducted a causality study to understand 17 the effect of energy consumption, information and communication technology and gross 18 domestic product on carbon emission levels in Iran.”