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Renewable Vs Non-Renewable Energy Consumption as a Driver of Government Deficit in Net Energy Importing Countries

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  • Can Tansel Tugcu
  • Angeliki N Menegaki
  • Ilhan Ozturk

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This paper is an empirical study on the relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy sources on the central government budget deficit of 33 net energy importing energy countries. We employ a panel data framework with variables such as the budget deficit of the central government, the GDP per capita, the average official exchange rate, the real interest rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption for a data span from 2000 to 2012. Based on causality results from this study, there is a uni-directional effect from budget deficit towards renewable energy consumption and a bi-directional causal relationship between non-renewable energy consumption and the budget deficit. Results from our study are informative for policy making, since nowadays fiscal policy on energy consumption is worldwide disputed, for not being able to fully achieve its targets. Therefore, there is political willingness to re-design it and move it from energy subsidies and energy taxes into energy full cost pricing and other tools that aim to reach those social groups that are in more need.

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  • Can Tansel Tugcu & Angeliki N Menegaki & Ilhan Ozturk, 2020. "Renewable Vs Non-Renewable Energy Consumption as a Driver of Government Deficit in Net Energy Importing Countries," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 10(10), pages 1100-1114.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:aeafrj:v:10:y:2020:i:10:p:1100-1114:id:2003
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    1. Auteri, Monica & Mele, Marco & Ruble, Isabella & Magazzino, Cosimo, 2024. "The double sustainability: The link between government debt and renewable energy," The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
    2. Nicoleta Mihaela Florea & Roxana Maria Bădîrcea & Georgeta-Madalina Meghisan-Toma & Silvia Puiu & Alina Georgiana Manta & Dorel Berceanu, 2021. "Linking Public Finances’ Performance to Renewable-Energy Consumption in Emerging Economies of the European Union," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-14, June.
    3. Marius Dalian Doran & Maria Magdalena Poenaru & Alexandra Lucia Zaharia & Sorana Vătavu & Oana Ramona Lobonț, 2022. "Fiscal Policy, Growth, Financial Development and Renewable Energy in Romania: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model with Evidence for Growth Hypothesis," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(1), pages 1-18, December.

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