The carbon Kuznets curve: A cloudy picture emitted by bad econometrics?

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 388-408

  Wagner, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Cross sectional dependence; Environmental Kuznets curves; Nonlinear transformations of integrated variables; Nonstationary panels; Unit roots

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COINTEGRATION; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; UNIT ROOTS;

CARBON;

CARBON; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; KUZNETS CURVE; PANEL DATA;

EID: 44649192347     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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