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explanatory variables other than GDP, alternative datasets, functional forms, and grouping of the countries examined. The most … emissions or concentrations and per capita GDP - and, in case of unit roots, on the cointegration property that must be present … long-run relationship exhibits an inverted-U pattern. On the basis of panel integration and cointegration tests for sulphur …
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capita GDP and pollution. Using a new data set for OECD countries on carbon dioxide emissions for the period 1960-1997, we …This paper casts doubt on empirical results based on panel estimations of an "inverted-U" relationship between per …
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The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...
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potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …
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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 apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of 208 countries …
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This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
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The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U …-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given …. Using cross section data for several indicators of pollution, the paper estimates the direct and the indirect effect of …
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data set covering over one hundred countries around the world for the last twenty five years and by considering alternative …
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regressors and their integer powers (e.g. GDP and GDP squared), which behave differently from linear cointegrating regressions …
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theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and … degradation can be entirely confirmed. If anything, there is modest support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH). In addition …
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