What are the carbon emissions elasticities for income and population? Bridging STIRPAT and EKC via robust heterogeneous panel estimates

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-73

  Liddle, Brantley ^a,b,c  

^a Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre   (Japan)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c The Institute of Energy Economics Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon kuznets curves; Cross sectional dependence; Kaya identity; Nonlinearities in environment and development; Nonstationary panels; Population and environment

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INCOME; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OECD; PANEL DATA;

TORREYA NUCIFERA;

EID: 84928800333     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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