Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how CO2 equivalent emissions are closely linked with economic development, over time and also across countries. Design/methodology/approach – Emissions data from energy information administration were subjected to macro analysis, regressed upon...

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...

The economy, understood as the process of production, distribution and consumption, is organized in a way that goods, commodities and merchandise appear in our daily lives in front of us without us knowing their origins and the track they took. Using Appadurai’s approach in studying...

A tanulmány a környezeti Kuznets-görbe-hipotézis tesztelésével vizsgálja a gazdasági növekedés emissziós következményét. A szerző az idősorok eltérő integráltsági rendje miatt általános autoregresszív osztott késleltetett (autoregressive distributed lag, ARDL) modellt...

As Earth’s fossil energy resources are limited, there is a growing need for renewable resources such as biodiesel. That is the reason why the social, economic and environmental impacts of biofuels became an important research topic in the last decade. Depleted stocks of crude oil and the...

A károsanyag-kibocsátás és a gazdasági növekedés összefüggő folyamatok, kapcsolatuk vizsgálatában a pénzügyi fejlettség gazdaságélénkítő szerepe miatt egyre nagyobb figyelmet kap. A fejlett pénzügyi rendszerű gazdaságokban a hitelezési lehetőségek bővülése és az...

The present study explores the relationship between economic growth, electricity consumption, carbon emissions and urbanization in Hungary over the period of 1974-2014. We use three-step model for testing stationarity, cointegration and causality in VECM framework. First, we employ ARDL bounds...