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 … semiparametric panel data model. Our results corroborates that the nature and validity of the income–pollution relationship …

A panel data set covering 145 countries between 1960 and 2010 has been investigated closely by using models of … determinants, dependent on one or both status variables in a local estimation. Afterwards, the well-known Solow (1956) model serves …

This article uses a nonparametric varying coefficient panel data model to study the convergence of real GDP per capita … among 120 world economies for the sample period of 1980-2010. The estimates show that the indirect contribution of initial …