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Abstract

The efficient and sustainable exploitation of energy resources may secure a sustainable economic growth for different regions. However, the peripheries are subject to social, economic, and political constraints, with limited power over energy management. The present work examines regional convergence in exploitation efficiency as synopsized in the GDP generated by energy and minerals in an era of the country’s efforts to shut down the lignite-run power production. With the assistance of panel unit root tests, we confirm non convergence of the variables employed, an expected result given the fact that different energy sources are being used for energy production by each different periphery, generating different economic results. In the second stage the methodology employed is a Bayesian vector auto-regressive model (BVAR) with an informative prior on the steady state. The particular methodology outperforms the conventional VAR methodology due to limited degrees of freedom. The Impulse response analysis and the Variance Decomposition analysis confirmed interlinkages among the regions studied. This result implies that the growth generated by different energy and mineral resources are interconnected. Furthermore, the energy transition taking place in Megalopoli and West Macedonia, where the two greatest lignite industries were located until recently, affects the growth generated by energy and resource exploitation for all the other peripheries, according to our findings. The novelty of the present work stands on the concept to detect interlinkages of energy and resources-based growth for the peripheries in Greece with the assistance of the Bayesian Var. The results of the present work are significant, since our findings suggest to policy makers tools to promote economic growth generated by energy based on alternative energy sources, including the environmentally friendly ones, by taking into consideration the interlinkages established by the existing infrastructure and the conventional energy sources used.

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Title
Energy and Mineral Resources Exploitation in the Delignitization Era: The Case of Greek Peripheries
Author
Zafeiriou, Eleni 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Spinthiropoulos, Konstantinos 2 ; Tsanaktsidis, Constantinos 3 ; Garefalakis, Stavros 2 ; Panitsidis, Konstantinos 2 ; Garefalakis, Alexandros 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Arabatzis, Garyfallos 5 

 Department of Agricultural Development, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, GR68200 Orestiada, Greece; Department of Business Administration, Neapolis University Pafos, Paphos 8042, Cyprus 
 Department of Management Science and Technology, School of Economic Sciences, University of West Macedonia, GR68100 Kozani, Greece; [email protected] (K.S.); [email protected] (S.G.); [email protected] (K.P.) 
 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of West Macedonia, GR68100 Kozani, Greece; [email protected] 
 Department of Business Administration, Neapolis University Pafos, Paphos 8042, Cyprus; Department of Business Administration and Tourism, School of Management and Economics Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University, GR71410 Heraklion, Greece 
 Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and of Natural Resources, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, GR68200 Orestiada, Greece; [email protected] 
First page
4732
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
19961073
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2686000074
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.