Immigration and electricity consumption: The case of Northern Cyprus

ABSTRACT

The present article uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure to identify the impact of immigration and economic growth on electricity consumption in the case of North Cyprus using annual data from 1977 to 2007. The results suggest that both economic growth and immigration are in a long-run equilibrium relationship with electricity consumption.

KEYWORDS:

• Electricity consumption
• immigration
• North Cyprus
• causality

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Notes

¹ See Feridun (1998) for a detailed historical analysis of the population and the demographic structure in North Cyprus.

² See Hatay (2005) for further discussion on the immigration issue in North Cyprus.

³ See Pesaran and Pesaran (1997, p. 117).

⁴ See http://www.ykp.org.cy/population/kibrisinkuzeyindekinufus.pdf.

⁵ Mehmet et al. (2007, p. 55).