Criado, Carlos Ordás; Grether, Jean-Marie - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2010
This paper investigates the convergence hypothesis for per capita CO2 emissions with a panel of 166 world areas covering the period 1960-2002. The analysis is based on the evolution of the spatial distributions over time. Robust measures of dispersion, asymmetry, peakedness and two nonparametric...