The EKC: Some really disturbing Monte Carlo evidence

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1447-1454

  Verbeke, Tom ^a   De Clercq, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis; I(1); Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COINTEGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE HYPOTHESIS; KUZNETS CURVE; MONTE CARLO;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; KUZNETS CURVE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POLLUTION;

EID: 33745811688     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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