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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 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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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaîd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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The environmental Kuznets curve : exploring a fresh specification

Bradford, David F.; Schlieckert, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H. - 2000

Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new...

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Pollution, shadow economy and corruption : theory and evidence

Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - 2011

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 … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …

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Growing apart? : a tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia

Thorvaldur Gylfason (contributor); … - 2007

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What determines fiscal policy? : evidence from German states

Berger, Helge (contributor); Holler, Anika (contributor) - 2007

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Public policies and long-run growth in a model with environmental degradation

Bonatti, Luigi; Lorenzetti, Lorenza Alexandra - 2022

We study how public policies affects an economy where production emits pollutants and investment in productive assets raises the economy’s overall productivity. We explore two hypotheses about how the accumulation of pollutants affects human well-being. Under the first one, there is no limit...

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Identification and estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve : pairwise differencing to deal with nonlinearity and nonstationarity

Sen, Suphi; Melenberg, Bertrand; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 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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China's investment rate : implications and prospects

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … reduction in investment. It also notes that investment in China remains broad-based across all economic sectors, with little …

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The changing patterns of investment in the PRC economy

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and …

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