Analysing the long-run relationship among oil market, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth: An evidence from emerging economies

• There is a long-run relationship among oil market, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth.
• Countries are energy dependent in stimulating economic growth.
• There is feedback impact between oil consumption and economic growth in three out of four countries.
• An increase in oil prices has drawbacks on emerging economies growth.

The primary objectives of this paper is to scrutinize the long-run relationship and the causal linkage between oil consumption, nuclear energy consumption, oil prices and economic growth. For this purpose, Johansen cointegration technique is applied using time series data for four emerging economies: Russia, China, South Korea and India, over the period from 1965 to 2010. Johansen cointegration results indicate that there is a long-run relationship between the proposed variables in each country. Exclusion tests show that both energy sources enter the cointegration space significantly (except for Russia), which suggests that energy has a long-run impact on economic growth. Results of the causal linkage between the variables point that energy consumption (i.e., oil or nuclear) has either a predictive power for economic growth, or a feedback impact between with real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in all countries. Hence, energy conservation policies might harmful negative consequences on the growth of economic for this group of countries.