Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Arbeitspapier

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U "environmental Kuznets" curve. In the case of a major greenhouse gas, CO2, however, the evidence is at best mixed. This paper attempts to shed further light on this issue by using a newly developed data set covering over one hundred countries around the world for the last twenty five years and by considering alternative functional forms together with an effort to rigorously discriminate among competing alternatives.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 2.1999

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General ; Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development ; Hypothesis Testing: General ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: Environment ; Growth ; CO2 emissions ; Panel data ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Umweltbelastung ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Schätzung ; Welt ; Environmental Kuznets Curve

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Galeotti, Marzio ; Lanza, Alessandro
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/154956
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET