Assessing the functional relationship between CO 2 emissions and economic development using an additive mixed model approach

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1328-1337

  Zanin, Luca ^a   Marra, Giampiero ^b  

^a Prometeia G Marconi   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive mixed model; CO 2 emission; Economic development; Environmental Kuznets curve; Penalised regression spline; Polynomial regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861684316     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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