Abstract
The issue of convergence has been discussed in many theoretical and empirical studies. Because per capita electricity consumption is considered as an indication of economic development, this study aims to determine the presence of ?absolute and conditional beta (?) convergence? of per capita total electricity consumption across the provinces of Turkey between 1986 and 2013. This work is the first investigation of electricity consumption convergence in Turkey. Based on the annual balanced panel data and the spatial panel data model, our findings indicate absolute ? convergence of per capita electricity consumption across the provinces of Turkey. We conclude that regional policies are successful in reducing regional disparities in per capita electricity consumption among the provinces of Turkey. However, other indicators of economic development should be examined to determine the overall convergence.
Highlights
As the role of space is very essential in regional growth analysis, spatial econometrics is applied to consider the impacts of proximity to neighboring regions and other dependencies (Monfort 2008)
The urbanization ratio is included as an explanatory factor for regional differences in electricity consumption growth
The results show that different conclusions are reached based on the model applied to determine conditional convergence
Summary
Because per capita electricity consumption is considered as an indication of economic development, this study aims to determine the presence of “absolute and conditional beta (β) convergence” of per capita total electricity consumption across the provinces of Turkey between 1986 and 2013. The main aim of this study is to determine the presence of absolute and conditional β convergence of per capita electricity consumption across the provinces of Turkey between 1986 and 2013 by applying a spatial panel data model
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