The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries
The paper attempts to test the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 36 high-income countries for the period 1980-2005. The test is based on the suggestion of Narayan and Narayan (2010). Various panel data unit root and co-integration tests are applied. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and GD...
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| description | The paper attempts to test the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 36 high-income countries for the period 1980-2005. The test is based on the suggestion of Narayan and Narayan (2010). Various panel data unit root and co-integration tests are applied. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and GDP series are integrated of order one and co-integrated, especially after controlling for cross-sectional dependence. Additionally, the Blundell-Bond system generalised methods of moments (GMM) is employed to conduct a panel causality test in a vector error-correction mechanism (VECM) setting. Unidirectional causality running from real per capita GDP to per capita CO2 emissions is uncovered in both the short-run and the long-run. The empirical analysis based on individual countries provides evidence of an EKC for Greece, Malta, Oman, Portugal and the United Kingdom. However, it can be observed that for the whole panel, a 1% increase in GDP generates an increase of 0.68% in CO2 emissions in the short-run and 0.22% in the long-run. The lower long-run income elasticity does not provide evidence of an EKC, but does indicate that, over time, CO2 emissions are stabilising in the rich countries. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-510302017-09-13T16:12:03Z The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries Jaunky, Vishal The paper attempts to test the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 36 high-income countries for the period 1980-2005. The test is based on the suggestion of Narayan and Narayan (2010). Various panel data unit root and co-integration tests are applied. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and GDP series are integrated of order one and co-integrated, especially after controlling for cross-sectional dependence. Additionally, the Blundell-Bond system generalised methods of moments (GMM) is employed to conduct a panel causality test in a vector error-correction mechanism (VECM) setting. Unidirectional causality running from real per capita GDP to per capita CO2 emissions is uncovered in both the short-run and the long-run. The empirical analysis based on individual countries provides evidence of an EKC for Greece, Malta, Oman, Portugal and the United Kingdom. However, it can be observed that for the whole panel, a 1% increase in GDP generates an increase of 0.68% in CO2 emissions in the short-run and 0.22% in the long-run. The lower long-run income elasticity does not provide evidence of an EKC, but does indicate that, over time, CO2 emissions are stabilising in the rich countries. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51030 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.050 Elsevier Science restricted |
| spellingShingle | Jaunky, Vishal The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title | The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title_full | The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title_fullStr | The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title_short | The CO2 emissions-income nexus: Evidence from rich countries |
| title_sort | co2 emissions-income nexus: evidence from rich countries |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51030 |