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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis

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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea - 2010

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...

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Tullock Challenges : Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: The measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure

Galletta, Sergio - 2012

We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub … of direct democracy. This allows us to take into account vertical differences between institutions, i.e. we can … distinguish the effect of state direct democracy on local expenditures for municipalities with and without own direct democratic …

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