The fragility of the environmental Kuznets curve: Revisiting the hypothesis with Chinese data via an "extreme bound analysis"

Ecological Economics

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-58

  Yang, Haisheng ^a   He, Jie ^b   Chen, Shaoling ^c  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

Author keywords

China; Data mining; Environmental Kuznets curve; General sensitivity test

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA MINING; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INCOME; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; KUZNETS CURVE; POLLUTION MONITORING;

CHINA;

EID: 84911394785     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.10.023     Document Type: Article

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