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RPR-2011-17 - ERIA

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6. ConclusionThis study uses a dynamic panel regression technique to estimate a cross-countrydemand equation for energy products with 71-country and 45-year long data andexamines the cross-country income and price elasticities of energy consumptionduring the period of 1965-2010.The results show that countries in different stages of economic development andinstitutional arrangement associated with energy market would demonstrate differentlevels of demand for energy consumption and thus the energy consumption related toprice and income elasticities. In particular, we found that countries at specificeconomic development stages may have relatively higher income elasticity orrelatively lower price elasticities due to economic structural changes, which in turnmay impose additional pressure on the demand side of the international energymarket.Energy market integration can help to reduce such a pressure by improving thedomestic energy supply and thus reduce the price elasticity. This finding can be usedto shed light on explaining the recent boom in China’s and India’s ever increasingdemand for energy products in the East Asian Submit region, which has importantpolicy implication for assessing the role of EMI in the region to maintain sustainableregional economic development.ReferencesArellano, M. and S. Bond, S. (1991), 'Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data:Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations', TheReview of Economic Studies 58, pp.277-297.Arellano, M. and O. Bover (1995), 'Another Look at the Instrumental VariableEstimation of Error Component Models' Journal of Econometrics 68, pp.29-51.Bernstein, M. A. and J. Griffin (2005), 'Regional Differences in the Price-Elasticityof Demand for Energy', Research Report, No. TR-2920NREL. Santa Monica:Rand Corporation.Blundell, R. and S. Bond (1998), 'Initial Conditions and Moment Restrictions inDynamic Panel Data Models', Journal of Econometrics 87, pp.115-143.33

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