Testing for convergence in carbon dioxide emissions using a century of panel data

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-120

  Westerlund, Joakim ^a   Basher, Syed A ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common factors; Emissions convergence; Half life; Panel unit root tests

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; PANEL UNIT ROOT TESTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONVERGENCE; EMISSION; ROOT;

EID: 42149109636     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9143-2     Document Type: Article

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