Article ID: | iaor20113576 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 2111 |
End Page Number: | 2120 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Lee Chien-Chiang, Chiu Yi-Bin |
Keywords: | petroleum, economics |
We examine the relationship among nuclear energy consumption, oil prices, oil consumption, and economic growth for developed countries. The existence of the substitution relationship between nuclear energy and oil. Real income has a greater impact on nuclear energy than do oil prices in the long run. An unidirectional causality running from oil prices and economic growth to nuclear energy consumption in the long run.