The Economics and Econometrics
of the Energy-Growth Nexus
Edited by
Angeliki N. Menegaki
TEI Stereas Elladas, University of Applied Sciences, Lamia, Greece
Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece
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List of Contributors
Mohammad Al-Saidi Institute for Technology and Resource Management in the Tropics
and Sub-tropics (ITT), University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Nicholas Apergis University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
Heli Arminen Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Alper Aslan Nevehir Hac Bekta Veli University, Nevehir, Turkey
Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Anabel Forte University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Jos A. Fuinhas University of Beira Interior and NECE-UBI, Covilh, Portugal
Gonzalo Garcia-Donato University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
Vladimír Hajko Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Roula Inglesi-Lotz University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Arthur Kraft Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
John Kraft University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
Antonio C. Marques University of Beira Interior and NECE-UBI, Covilh, Portugal
Angeliki N. Menegaki TEI STEREAS ELLADAS, University of Applied Sciences, Greece;
Hellenic Open University, Greece
Maamar Sebri University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
Muhammad Shahbaz Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
Aviral K. Tiwari Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Cedex 4, France
Ebru Topcu Nevehir Hac Bekta Veli University, Nevehir, Turkey
Stella Tsani Athens University of Economics and Business; International Centre for Research
on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
Can T. Tugcu Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey。