Carbon dioxide emissions and interregional economic convergence in China

Economic Modelling

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 672-680

  Yang, Jun ^a   Zhang, Tengfei ^a   Sheng, Pengfei ^b   Shackman, Joshua D ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Trident University International   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Convergence; ETFP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958670574     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.09.038     Document Type: Article

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