This study is based on a balanced panel of pollutants (CO2, SO2 and NOx emissions per capita) drawn from the electricity sector of 51 US regions covering the period 1990-2012. The empirical findings indicate strong evidence of non-linear cointegrated relationships between local (SO2 and NOX) and...

There has been intensive research in the literature of macroeconomics examining the nexus between finance, capital movements, and economic growth to explore the impact of each variable on other variables in the system. One might claim that these researches, needless to say, are seminal and have...

This chapter provides a thorough introduction to panel, global, and factor augmented vector autoregressive models. These models are typically used to capture interactions across units (i.e., countries) and variable types. Since including a large number of countries and/or variables increases the...