The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) introduces an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental pollution and …, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). Environmental Kuznets Curve is tested by panel smooth … and no-remaining nonlinearity test showed that there is a smooth transition exists between two regimes (below $5176 GDP …

semiparametric panel data model. Our results corroborates that the nature and validity of the income–pollution relationship based on … particular, we propose to test the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for a panel of 24 OECD countries and 32 non …-OECD countries by developing a more flexible estimation technique which enables to account for functional form misspecification …

This study is based on a balanced panel of pollutants (CO2, SO2 and NOx emissions per capita) drawn from the … level of economic growth. The dynamic Panel-VAR results using impulse response functions and variance decomposition support …

African (MENA) countries over the period 1990-2010 using panel data methods. For the first specification, namely EKC, we show …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …