Does financial development reduce CO2 emissions in Malaysian economy? A time series analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 145-152

  Shahbaz, Muhammad ^a   Solarin, Sakiru Adebola ^b   Mahmood, Haider ^a   Arouri, Mohamed ^c  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Cointegration; Financial development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880661671     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.06.037     Document Type: Article

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