Club convergence in carbon dioxide emissions

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-70

  Panopoulou, Ekaterini ^a   Pantelidis, Theologos ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide emissions; Convergence club; Nonlinear time varying factor model; Relative transition

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CONVERGENCE CLUB; FACTOR MODEL; PER CAPITA; PHILLIPS; RELATIVE TRANSITION; SLOW CONVERGENCES; STEADY STATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CONVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 70350151659     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-008-9260-6     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Aldy JE (2006) Per capita carbon dioxide emissions: convergence or divergence? Environ Resour Econ 33(4): 533-555.
2. Aldy JE (2007) Divergence in state-level per capita carbon dioxide emissions. Land Econ 83(3): 353-369.
3. Andrews DWK (1991) Heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix estimation. Econometrica 59: 817-858.
4. Arrow K, Bolin B, Costanza R, Dasgupta P, Folke C, Holling S, Jansson BO, Levin S, Maler KG, Perrings C, Pimentel D (1995) Economic growth, carrying capacity and the environment. Science 268: 520-521.
5. Banerjee A, Marcellino M, Osbat C (2004) Some cautions on the use of panel methods for integrated series of macro-economic data. Econom J 7: 322-340.
6. Barro RJ, Sala-i-Martin X (1990) Economic growth and convergence across the United States. NBER Working Paper No. W3419.
7. Barro RJ, Sala-i-Martin X, Blanchard OJ, Hall RE (1991) Convergence across states and regions. Brookings Pap Econ Activ 1991(1): 107-182.
8. Baumol WJ (1986) Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: what the long-run data show. Am Econ Rev 76(5): 1072-1085.
9. Brock WA, Taylor MS (2004) The green solow model. NBER Working Paper No. 10557.
10. Bulte EH, List JA, Strazicich MC (2007) Regulatory federalism and the distribution of air pollutant emissions. J Reg Sci 47(1): 155-178.
11. Carlino G, Mills L (1993) Are US regional economies converging? A time series analysis. J Monet Econ 32: 335-346.
12. Carlino G, Mills L (1996) Testing neoclassical convergence in regional incomes and earnings. Reg Sci Urban Econ 26(6): 565-590.
13. Bruyn SM (1997) Explaining the environmental Kuznets curve: structural change and international agreements in reducing sulphur emissions. Environ Dev Econ 2: 485-503.
14. Long BJ (1988) Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: comment. Am Econ Rev 78(5): 1138-1154.
15. 2 panel EKC estimations. Environ Resour Econ 32: 229-239.
16. Ezcurra R (2007) Is there cross-country convergence in carbon dioxide emissions? Energy Policy 35: 1363-1372.
17. Farla J, Blok K, Schipper L (1997) Energy efficiency developments in the pulp and paper industry. Energy Policy 25: 745-758.
18. Graus WHJ, Voogt M, Worrell E (2007) International comparison of energy efficiency of fossil power generation. Energy Policy 35: 3936-3951.
19. Grossman GM, Krueger AB (1995) Economic growth and the environment. Q J Econ 110(2): 353-377.
20. Heil MT, Selden TM (1999) Panel stationarity with structural breaks: carbon emissions and GDP. Appl Econ Lett 6: 223-225.
21. 2 emissions and economic growth. J Public Econ 57: 85-101.
22. 2 emission trends in the iron and steel industry. Energy Policy 30: 827-838.
23. Lanne M, Liski M (2004) Trends and breaks in per-capita carbon dioxide emissions, 1870-2028. Energy J 25(4): 41-65.
24. List JA (1999) Have air pollutant emissions converged among U.S. Regions? Evidence from unit root tests. South Econ J 66(1): 144-155.
25. 2 emissions. Environ Resour Econ 32: 495-508.
26. Persson TA, Colpierb UC, Azar C (2007) Adoption of carbon dioxide efficient technologies and practices: an analysis of sector-specific convergence trends among 12 nations. Energy Policy 35: 2869-2878.
27. Phillips PCB, Sul D (2005) Economic transition and growth. Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1514.
28. Phillips PCB, Sul D (2007a) Transition modeling and econometric convergence tests. Econometrica 75(6): 1771-1855.
29. Phillips PCB, Sul D (2007b) Some empirics on economic growth under heterogeneous technology. J Macroecon 29: 455-469.
30. Quah DT (1990) International patterns of growth. I. Persistence in cross-country disparities. Unpublished Paper, MIT.
31. Quah D (1993) Galton's fallacy and tests of the convergence hypothesis. Scand J Econ 95(4): 427-443.
32. Quah DT (1996) Empirics for economic growth and convergence. Eur Econ Rev 40: 1353-1375.
33. Quah DT (1997) Empirics for growth and distribution: stratification, polarization, and convergence clubs. J Econ Growth 2: 27-59.
34. Ravallion M, Heil M, Jalan J (2000) Carbon emissions and income inequality. Oxf Econ Pap 46: 757-773.
35. Romero-Avila D (2008) Convergence in carbon dioxide emissions among industrialised countries revisited. Energy Econ 30(5): 2265-2282.
36. Sala-i-Martin X (1996) Regional cohesion: evidence and theories of regional growth and convergence. Eur Econ Rev 40: 1325-1352.
37. Schmalensse R, Stiker TM, Judson RA (1998) World carbon dioxide emissions: 1950-2050. Rev Econ Stat 80(1): 15-27.
38. Shafik N (1994) Economic development and environmental quality: an econometric analysis. Oxf Econ Pap 52: 651-669.
39. Stegman A (2005) Convergence in carbon emissions per capita. Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Working Paper, The Australian National University.
40. Stern DI (2004) The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Dev 32(8): 1419-1439.
41. Stern DI, Common MS, Barbier EB (1996) Economic growth and environmental degradation: a critique of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Dev 24(7): 1151-1160.
42. 2 emission levels converging among industrial countries? Environ Resour Econ 24: 263-271.
43. Westerlund J, Basher SA (2008) Testing for convergence in carbon dioxide emissions using a century of panel data. Environ Resour Econ 40(1): 109-120.
44. Worrell E, Price L, Martin N, Farla J, Schaeffer R (1997) Energy intensity in the iron and steel industry: a comparison of physical and economic indicators. Energy Policy 25: 727-744.