Kijima, Masaaki; Nishide, Katsumasa; Ohyama, Atsuyuki - 2012
Previous studies have suggested that some pollutant levels first increase due to the economic growth and then start decreasing, the pattern being called the "environmental Kuznets curve" (EKC). We examine EKC-type transitions of pollutant levels not with respect to economic growth but more...