Abstract:
The relationship between renewable energy and economic growth is one of the
most attractive subjects in economic literature. The purpose of this study is to investigate ten different panel data sets for G20 countries in the 1970- 2013 period
using TAR models with two regimes used for panel-data in a non-linear framework. In the literature, there is a limited number of studies using non-parametric
techniques. The estimates indicate that the results may change according to the
linear and nonlinear analysis. The linear model indicates that these countries
have been converging during the last fourthly decades. Th