| 期刊詳細資料 Journal detailed information |
| 作者(Author) | Yi-Chia Wang |
| 篇名(Article title) | Validity of Dynamics in Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: OECD Evidence |
| 期刊名(Journal name) | International Economics and Finance Journal |
| 國際期刊(International Journal) | Econlit, JEL |
| 中文摘要(Abstrct) | |
| ABSTRCT | The hypothesis called the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) suggests that environmental deterioration in an economy, in some aspects, can be curbed after a certain threshold of income per capita is achieved. Most existing empirical studies, regardless of whether they support or disagree with this hypothesis, are based on inappropriate regressions that use variables with different integration orders. This paper corrects this dynamic deficiency in the
conventional EKC test by running a balanced regression that uses variables integrated with the same order. The results indicate that the alternative EKC regression developed in this paper improves the cointegration test amongst pollution and the polynomial of income per capita. However, the modified regression shows no evidence for long-run EKC phenomena for sulfur dioxide emissions, as well as carbon dioxide emissions in the selected high-income OECD
countries, during the period 1870–2001. |
| 中文關鍵字(Keyword) | |
| KEYWORD | Environmental Kuznets curve、EKC、SO2、CO2、Panel Estimation、OECD |
| 卷期(Volume No) | Vol. 7 No. 1 |
| 頁數(Page number) | pp. 209~225 |
| 年份(Year) | 2012 |
| 語言(Language) | 英文 English |