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Better to grow or better to improve? : measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...

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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

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Richer and Cleaner? A Study on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Developing Countries

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013

The Climate Change debate has drawn attention to the problem of greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most important issues in the policy debate is the role that should be played by developing countries in joining the commitment of developed countries to reduce GHG...

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The Demographic Transition and the Ecological Transition : Enriching the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Piccoli, Maria … - 2013

between pollution, environmental degradation, and income within the conceptual framework of the two transitions: the …

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC hereafter) has been subject of continuous and intense scrutiny. The most recent line of investigation criticizes the EKC hypothesis on more...

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets : A New Look at the Evidence

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2013

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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Economic development and environmental protection

Galeotti, Marzio - 2003

scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) the turning point pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the historic …

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Environment and economic growth : is technical change the key to decoupling?

Galeotti, Marzio - 2003

The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …

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