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The nexus between Russian uranium exports and US nuclear-energy consumption: Do the spillover effects of geopolitical risks matter?

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  • Islam, Md. Monirul
  • Shahbaz, Muhammad
  • Samargandi, Nahla

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Geopolitical risks significantly impact global energy consumption, hindering material trade and influencing policy decisions. Specifically, the Russian uranium supply for US nuclear energy production faces geopolitical risks despite being exempt from ongoing sanctions imposed by Western and European entities during the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We investigate the effect of global, Russian, and US geopolitical risks on US nuclear-energy consumption driven by Russian uranium exports from January 1996 to December 2019. The cross-quantilogram analysis reveals a negative influence of global geopolitical risks on Russian uranium export-driven US nuclear-energy consumption in lower quantiles, and a positive effect in medium to upper quantiles under long memory. Interestingly, Russian geopolitical risks do not have any significant effect, while US geopolitical risks positively impact from the medium to upper quantiles in extended memory. Hence, our policy suggestion is solely concerned with adequately dealing with global geopolitical risks under the global governance platform to enhance worldwide uranium trade for nuclear energy consumption in the USA.

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  • Islam, Md. Monirul & Shahbaz, Muhammad & Samargandi, Nahla, 2024. "The nexus between Russian uranium exports and US nuclear-energy consumption: Do the spillover effects of geopolitical risks matter?," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 293(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:293:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224002524
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.130481
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    Keywords

    Russian uranium exports; US nuclear-energy consumption; Spillover effects; Geopolitical risks; Cross-quantilogram procedure; Wavelet coherence technique;
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    JEL classification:

    • B17 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - International Trade and Finance
    • P28 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Natural Resources; Environment
    • Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices

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