Convergence in carbon dioxide emissions among industrialised countries revisited
This paper examines the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 23 countries over the period 1960-2002. For that purpose, we conduct unit root testing by employing the recently developed panel stationarity test of Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. [Carrion-i-Silvestre, J-L, del Barrio-Castro, T., Lopez-Bazo, E., 2005. Breaking the panels: An application to the GDP per capita. Econometrics Journal 8, 159-175] which assumes a highly flexible trend function by incorporating an unknown number of structural breaks. We accommodate general forms of cross-sectional dependence as well as control for finite-sample bias through bootstrap methods. Overall, our analysis provides strong evidence supporting both stochastic and deterministic convergence in CO2 emissions, thus confirming Strazicich and List [Strazicich, M.C., List, J.A., 2003. Are CO2 emission levels converging among industrial countries? Environmental and Resource Economics 24, 263-271] and Westerlund and Basher [Westerlund, J., Basher, S.A., 2007. Testing for convergence in carbon dioxide emissions using a century of panel data. Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming] findings of convergence.
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2008
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Authors: | Romero-Ávila, Diego |
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Energy Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0140-9883. - Vol. 30.2008, 5, p. 2265-2282
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Elsevier |
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