TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic Growth and Emissions: Reconsidering the Empirical Basis of Environmental Kuznets Curves
AU - de Bruyn, S.M.
AU - van den Bergh, J.C.J.M.
AU - Opschoor, J.B.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Recent empirical research indicates that certain types of emissions follow an inverted-U or environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) as income grows. This regularity has been interpreted as a possible de-linking of economic growth and patterns of certain pollutants for developed economies. In this paper the empirical basis of this result is investigated by considering some statistical particularities of the various EKC studies performed. It is argued that the inverted-U relationship between income and emissions estimated from panel data need not hold for specific individual countries over time. Based on insights from 'intensity-of-use' analysis in resource economics, an alternative growth model is specified and estimated for three types of emissions (CO
AB - Recent empirical research indicates that certain types of emissions follow an inverted-U or environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) as income grows. This regularity has been interpreted as a possible de-linking of economic growth and patterns of certain pollutants for developed economies. In this paper the empirical basis of this result is investigated by considering some statistical particularities of the various EKC studies performed. It is argued that the inverted-U relationship between income and emissions estimated from panel data need not hold for specific individual countries over time. Based on insights from 'intensity-of-use' analysis in resource economics, an alternative growth model is specified and estimated for three types of emissions (CO
U2 - 10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00178-X
DO - 10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00178-X
M3 - Article
VL - 25
SP - 161
EP - 175
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
SN - 0921-8009
ER -
