Hold your breath: A new index of air pollution

Energy Economics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-113

  Buehn, Andreas ^a,b   Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; EKC hypothesis; Emissions; MIMIC model

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EKC HYPOTHESIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ETHIOPIA; ICELANDS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LUXEMBOURG; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTIPLE INDICATORS; NEW INDICES; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; SWITZERLAND; TAJIKISTAN; URGENT PROBLEMS;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDEX METHOD; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; KUZNETS CURVE; MODELING;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; ICELAND; JAPAN; LUXEMBOURG [BENELUX]; LUXEMBOURG [LUXEMBOURG (NTN)]; MOZAMBIQUE; NORWAY; SWITZERLAND; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 84874775891     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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