Can environmental quality spread through institutions?

Energy Policy

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 312-321

  Hosseini, Hossein Mirshojaeian ^a,b   Kaneko, Shinji ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Institutions; Spatial environmental relationships; Spatial institutional spillover

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS; INSTITUTIONAL QUALITIES; SPATIAL ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL INSTITUTIONAL SPILLOVER; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TRANS-BOUNDARY POLLUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PANEL DATA; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 84875228839     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.12.067     Document Type: Article

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