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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053065
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Identification and Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve : Pairwise Differencing to Deal with Nonlinearity and Nonstationarity
Sen, Suphi - 2016
We propose an estimation strategy that accounts for two major problems raised in the empirical literature testing for the prevalence of the inverted U-shaped relation between environmental degradation and economic activity, namely the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. First, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993697
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Economic, Demographic and Political Determinants of Pollution Reassessed: A Sensitivity Analysis
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006
Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of … this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not … water pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406345
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the hypothesis of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034803
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Driving Factors of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Impact from Kyoto Protocol
Grunewald, Nicole; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - CESifo - 2009
In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted-U curve. However, recent evidence rejects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013945
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2012
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645652
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - CESifo - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765493
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Efficiency and Environment Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Chan, H. Ron - 2013
We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084009
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The Monopolistic Polluter Under Environmental Liability Law : Incentives for Abatement and R&D
Endres, Alfred - 2013
This paper analyzes the output, abatement, and investment decisions made by a monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law. The model applied considers both integrated and end-of-pipe abatement technologies. We find that in the case of fixed technology, in many instances negligence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092076
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999–2005 from more than 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159