Is Per Capita Electricity Consumption Non-stationary? A Long-span Study for Turkey

Abstract

This article examines the stationary properties of per capita electricity consumption in which the endogenously determined break points are incorporated in Turkey by using annual data over 1923–2008. We utilize a Lagrange multiplier unit root test that endogenously determines structural breaks in level and/or trend. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence that per capita electricity consumption is stationary.

Keywords:

• electricity consumption
• structural break
• unit root

Notes

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