This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...

Introduction -- PART I Modelling Macroeconomic Scenarios: Energy Issues, Economic Performances and Environmental Policy -- Chapter 1 The GTAP-E: Model Description and Improvements -- Chapter 2 Carbon Leakage and Trade Adjustment Policies -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Approaches to Dynamic Efficiency...

This paper investigates the EKC curves for CO2 emissions in a panel of 109 countries during the period 1959-2001. The length of the series makes the application of a heterogeneous estimator suitable from an econometric point of view. The results, based on the hierarchical Bayes estimator, show...