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Kuznets curve and environmental performance: evidence from China
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper investigates China’s environmental performance-economic development relationship for the time period of 1965 …-2009. The results indicate that after 1990 China increased its environmental performance mainly driven by the implementation of … several environmental policies. In addition when we taking into account several factors contributed to China’s economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353829
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Economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions: Empirical evidence from China
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using time series data, this paper investigates China’s carbon emissions during 1960-2006, with particular focus on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246885
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Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People’s Republic of China: turning points and regional differences
Jiang, Yi; Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of China by empirically estimating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562614
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Empirical Analysis of The EKC Hypothesis for Sulfur Dioxide Emissions in Selected Middle East and North African Countries
AROURI, Mohamed El Hedi; BEN YOUSSEF, Adel; M'HENNI, Hatem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Studying the impact of economic growth on the environment in the context of developing countries has become of increasing economic importance in recent years. Alarming international reports showed that pollutants emissions are growing at their highest level ever, particularly in the South. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260408
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Economic Growth, Biodiversity and Conservation Policies in Africa: an Overview
Iritie, Jean-Jacques - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
From the economic literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment pioneered by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) we first conduct a theoretical and critical reflection on the existence of a Kuznets curve for biodiversity. It appears that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166052
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Causal misspecifications in econometric models
Itkonen, Juha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We bridge together the graph-theoretic and the econometric approach for defining causality in statistical models to consider model misspecification problems. By presenting a solution to disagreements between the existing frameworks, we build a causal framework that allows us to express causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644778
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Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Environment in Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria
Feridun, Mete - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article aims at investigating the impact of trade openness on pollution and resource depletion in Nigeria. Results indicate that pollution is positively related to trade intensity and real GDP per square kilometer, while capital to labor ratio and GNP are negatively related to pollution. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836412
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Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Italy, 1861-2003
Annicchiarico, Barbara; Bennato, Anna Rita; Costa, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Italy for the period 1861-2003. Using cointegration, rolling regression and error correction modeling techniques, we find that growth and carbon dioxide emissions are strongly interrelated, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837399
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China: the environmental Kuznets curve and policy effects
Taguchi, Hiroyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
study focuses on the case of China, a typical example of a county facing environmental difficulties under high economic … first gets worse, and then begins to get better) has been validated in China –in such typical fields as air and water … pollution, and to what extent China’s environmental policies on pollution control have contributed to environmental improvements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240421
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Trade, FDI, growth and biodiversity: an empirical analysis for the main OECD countries.
de santis, roberta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Whether the Environmental Kutznets curve relationship holds for biodiversity or not remains an open issue. While there are several studies investigating the EKC relationship for biodiversity, they suffer from some limitations and the empirical evidence is inconclusive. More specifically, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258205