Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24148 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 05-56
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We examine the empirical relation between CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita during the period 1960-1996, using a panel of 100 countries. Relying on the nonparametric poolability test of Baltagi et al. (1996), we find evidence of structural stability of the relationship. We then specify a nonparametric panel data model with country-specific effects. Estimation results show that this relationship is upward sloping. Nonparametric specification tests do not reject monotonicity but do reject the polynomial functional form which leads to the environmental Kuznets curve in several studies.
Subjects: 
Environmental Kuznets curve
panel data
poolability test
mono- tonicity test
specification test
JEL: 
O40
C23
C14
O10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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