Stochastic convergence of per capita carbon dioxide emissions and multiple structural breaks in OECD countries

Economic Modelling

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1375-1381

  Lee, Chien Chiang ^a   Chang, Chun Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Marketing Management ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multiple structural breaks; OECD countries; Panel data stationarity test; Per capita CO2 emissions; Stochastic convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849115193     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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