This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...

This study investigates the impact of financial development (FD) on CO2 emissions in the presence of economic growth, industrial growth, and renewable energy consumption. The sample size consists of panel of 89 countries for the period 1992-2014. The empirical analysis has been done by applying...