Energy consumption, income, and carbon emissions in the United States

Ecological Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 482-489

  Soytas, Ugur ^a   Sari, Ramazan ^b   Ewing, Bradley T ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Economic growth; Energy consumption; Generalized impulse response functions; Generalized variance decompositions; Granger causality

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; ENERGY USE; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; INCOME; KUZNETS CURVE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247608102     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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