The heterogeneity of carbon Kuznets curves for advanced countries: Comparing homogeneous, heterogeneous and shrinkage/Bayesian estimators

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 3827-3842

  Mazzanti, Massimiliano ^a   Musolesi, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

advanced countries; Bayesian estimators; CO2; environmental Kuznets curves; heterogeneous panel estimators; parameter heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC POLICY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84871191367     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.734597     Document Type: Article

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