Financial development, environmental quality, trade and economic growth: What causes what in MENA countries

Energy Economics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 242-252

  Omri, Anis ^a   Daly, Saida ^b   Rault, Christophe ^c,d   Chaibi, Anissa ^e  

^a Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^e IPAG Lab IPAG Business School ^*  (France)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Economic growth; Financial development; Simultaneous equation models; Trade

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FINANCE;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUTRALITY HYPOTHESIS; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION MODELS; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS;

ECONOMICS;

CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; KUZNETS CURVE; PANEL DATA; POLICY MAKING;

MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84923001226     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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