Functional sensitivity of testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 451-466

  Wang, Yi Chia ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EKC; Environmental Kuznets curve; Non linear regression

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION RELATIONSHIP; EKC; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE HYPOTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; FUNCTIONAL SENSITIVITIES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; QUADRATIC FUNCTIONALS;

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFUR; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887820220     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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