Does financial instability increase environmental degradation? Fresh evidence from Pakistan

Economic Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 537-544

  Shahbaz, Muhammad ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Environment; Financial instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879238135     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.04.035     Document Type: Article

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