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Festus Victor Bekun

Festus Victor Bekun

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2025
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Economics and Finance
Turkey
2026

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Rising Stars

D-Index
68
Citations
15786
World Ranking
93
National Ranking
4

Economics and Finance

D-Index
77
Citations
19688
World Ranking
328
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Turkey Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Festus Victor Bekun is affiliated with Gelişim Üniversitesi in Turkey and has an extensive publication record in the intersecting fields of economics, environmental science, and energy studies. Their research primarily focuses on the dynamic relationships among energy consumption, environmental quality, economic growth, and sustainability.

The main fields of study for Bekun include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science
  • Energy

Within these areas, subfields explored are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Pollution
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their research topics cover:

  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

Bekun's research has been published across several frequent venues, including:

  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Public Affairs
  • Environment Development and Sustainability
  • Resources Policy
  • Heliyon

Frequent co-authors in Bekun's body of work are:

  • Bright Akwasi Gyamfi
  • Festus Fatai Adedoyin
  • Andrew Adewale Alola
  • İlhan Öztürk
  • Stephen Taiwo Onifade

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Bekun include:

  • "Mitigating Emissions in India: Accounting for the Role of Real Income, Renewable Energy Consumption and Investment in Energy," 2022, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
  • "Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?", 2020, Business Strategy and the Environment
  • "Assessing the environmental sustainability corridor: Linking natural resources, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint in BRICS," 2020, Resources Policy
  • "Energy consumption, economic policy uncertainty and carbon emissions; causality evidence from resource rich economies," 2020, Economic Analysis and Policy
  • "Natural resource, globalization, urbanization, human capital, and environmental degradation in Latin American and Caribbean countries," 2020, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Bekun's research focuses heavily on themes such as environmental sustainability, energy consumption, economic policy impacts on carbon emissions, and the interactions between financial development, innovation, and environmental quality. Their work also addresses regional analyses including BRICS countries, India, and Latin American and Caribbean nations, often integrating socioeconomic factors such as human capital and globalization into environmental impact assessments.

Best Publications

  • Toward a sustainable environment: Nexus between CO2 emissions, resource rent, renewable and nonrenewable energy in 16-EU countries

    Festus Victor Bekun;Andrew Adewale Alola;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Dynamic impact of trade policy, economic growth, fertility rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on ecological footprint in Europe.

    Andrew Adewale Alola;Festus Victor Bekun;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Modelling coal rent, economic growth and CO2 emissions: Does regulatory quality matter in BRICS economies?

    Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Moses Iga Gumede;Festus Victor Bekun;Mfonobong Udom Etokakpan

  • Another look at the relationship between energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth in South Africa.

    Festus Victor Bekun;Fırat Emir;Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

  • Modeling the dynamic linkage between financial development, energy innovation, and environmental quality: Does globalization matter?

    Muhammad Awais Baloch;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Festus Victor Bekun;Danish Khan

  • Symmetric and asymmetric impact of economic growth, capital formation, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on environment in OECD countries

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  • Assessing the environmental sustainability corridor: Linking natural resources, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint in BRICS.

    Solomon Prince Nathaniel;Solomon Prince Nathaniel;Kürşat Yalçiner;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Determinants of CO2 emissions in the BRICS economies: The role of partnerships investment in energy and economic complexity

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  • Energy consumption, economic policy uncertainty and carbon emissions; causality evidence from resource rich economies

    Samuel Adams;Festus Adedoyin;Eniola Olaniran;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Mitigating Emissions in India: Accounting for the Role of Real Income, Renewable Energy Consumption and Investment in Energy

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  • Role of Green Technology, Environmental Taxes, and Green Energy Towards Sustainable Environment: Insights from Sovereign Nordic Countries by CS-ARDL Approach

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  • The criticality of growth, urbanization, electricity and fossil fuel consumption to environment sustainability in Africa.

    Simplice A. Asongu;Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola;Andrew Adewale Alola;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Natural resource, globalization, urbanization, human capital, and environmental degradation in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

    Solomon P. Nathaniel;Nnandi Nwulu;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Beyond the environmental Kuznets Curve in E7 economies: Accounting for the combined impacts of institutional quality and renewables

    Festus Victor Bekun;Bright Akwasi Gyamfi;Stephen Taiwo Onifade;Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola

  • An assessment of environmental sustainability corridor: The role of economic expansion and research and development in EU countries

    Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Andrew Adewale Alola;Festus Victor Bekun

  • The Implications of Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Generating in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Economic Policy Uncertainties

    Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola;Phillips O. Agboola

  • Energy intensity, carbon emissions, renewable energy, and economic growth nexus: New insights from Romania

    Fırat Emir;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Do agricultural activities induce carbon emissions? The BRICS experience

    Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente;Oana M. Driha;Festus Victor Bekun;Olawumi Abeni Osundina;Olawumi Abeni Osundina

  • The anthropogenic consequences of energy consumption in E7 economies: Juxtaposing roles of renewable, coal, nuclear, oil and gas energy: Evidence from panel quantile method

    Bright Akwasi Gyamfi;Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Murad A. Bein;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Pathway to environmental sustainability: Nexus between economic growth, energy consumption, CO2 emission, oil rent and total natural resources rent in Saudi Arabia

    Mary Oluwatoyin Agboola;Festus Victor Bekun;Udi Joshua

  • Environmental consequences of economic complexities in the EU amidst a booming tourism industry: Accounting for the role of brexit and other crisis events

    Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Phillips O. Agboola;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Ilhan Ozturk;Festus Victor Bekun

  • Growth impact of transition from non-renewable to renewable energy in the EU: The role of research and development expenditure

    Festus Fatai Adedoyin;Festus Victor Bekun;Andrew Adewale Alola

  • Accounting for the combined impacts of natural resources rent, income level, and energy consumption on environmental quality of G7 economies: a panel quantile regression approach.

    Bright Akwasi Gyamfi;Stephen Taiwo Onifade;Chinazaekpere Nwani;Festus Victor Bekun

  • The Contribution of Agricultural Sector on Economic Growth of Nigeria

    Kamil Sertoglu;Sevin Ugural;Festus Victor Bekun

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilhan Ozturk
Ilhan Ozturk Nişantaşı University
Simplice A. Asongu
Simplice A. Asongu African Governance and Development Institute
Mehmet Balcilar
Mehmet Balcilar University of New Haven
Cosimo Magazzino
Cosimo Magazzino LUM University
Avik Sinha
Avik Sinha Management Development Institute
Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar
Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar City University of Hong Kong
Rangan Gupta
Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria
Qiang Ji
Qiang Ji Chinese Academy of Sciences
Riza Demirer
Riza Demirer Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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