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The Importance of Meta-Analysis in the Energy-Growth Nexus; Guidelines for a Complete Implementation

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This chapter hopes to urge energy-growth nexus researchers toward meta-analyses. The field suffers from the lack of a global relationship that would also provide the theoretical foundations that are so much needed in the energy-growth nexus. The chapter also shows the importance of meta-analysis in the energy-growth nexus and provides useful guidelines that must be followed for it to become verbose and successful. The energy-growth nexus is a topic with contradictory results that vary depending on the country, group of countries, period in which it is applied, and the employed method. A meta-analysis could contribute to making these studies more helpful and reliable as far as policy making is concerned. The chapter will demonstrate how data are collected in a meta-analysis, how they are screened and analyzed in a meta-regression model, as well as how they are interpreted, hoping to set the base for a continuous meta-analysis in the field. To this end, the chapter includes best case examples from the very few meta-analyses that have been implemented so far.

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  1. Department of Economics and Management of Tourist Units, Agricultural University of Athens, Amfissa, Greece

    Angeliki N. Menegaki

  2. Cyprus Open University, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Angeliki N. Menegaki

  3. Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Angeliki N. Menegaki

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    Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente

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Menegaki, A.N. (2020). The Importance of Meta-Analysis in the Energy-Growth Nexus; Guidelines for a Complete Implementation. In: Shahbaz, M., Balsalobre-Lorente, D. (eds) Econometrics of Green Energy Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46847-7_12

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