The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani

This study focuses on the causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia economy. The variables used in this study are electricity consumption, gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, interest rate and per capita income. For this electricity consumption...

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Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2007
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16816/
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description This study focuses on the causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia economy. The variables used in this study are electricity consumption, gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, interest rate and per capita income. For this electricity consumption, the data will be collected from the net income of Tenaga National Berhad (TNB) and economic variables are using Malaysia economy data. This study will be using data from year 1992 until year 2006, in the yearly basis. This study used granger causality as their methodology to find the causal relationships between all variables. The results for this study was (1) There is uni-directional causality between electricity consumption and gross domestic product in Malaysia, (2) there is no causality relationship between electricity consumption and inflation rate in Malaysia, this means both variables are no affecting each other, (3) there is a uni-directional causality between interest rate and electricity consumption in Malaysia and lastly there is bidirectional causality between electricity consumption and per capita income.
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spelling uitm-168162017-05-04T05:57:30Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16816/ The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani This study focuses on the causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia economy. The variables used in this study are electricity consumption, gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, interest rate and per capita income. For this electricity consumption, the data will be collected from the net income of Tenaga National Berhad (TNB) and economic variables are using Malaysia economy data. This study will be using data from year 1992 until year 2006, in the yearly basis. This study used granger causality as their methodology to find the causal relationships between all variables. The results for this study was (1) There is uni-directional causality between electricity consumption and gross domestic product in Malaysia, (2) there is no causality relationship between electricity consumption and inflation rate in Malaysia, this means both variables are no affecting each other, (3) there is a uni-directional causality between interest rate and electricity consumption in Malaysia and lastly there is bidirectional causality between electricity consumption and per capita income. Faculty of Business and Management 2007 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16816/1/PPb_FAZILA%20MOHD%20BANI%20BM%2007_5.pdf UNSPECIFIED (2007) The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani. (2007) [Student Project] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title_full The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title_fullStr The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title_full_unstemmed The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title_short The study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in Malaysia / Fazila Mohd Bani
title_sort study of causal relationships between electricity consumption and economic variables in malaysia / fazila mohd bani
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16816/