Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74083 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 78.2007
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more protected, promote real and financial investment; this increases the speed at which the per-capita income corresponding to the declining branch of the Environmental Kutznets Curve (EKC) is achieved. In econometrics different regression analyses were performed using as dependent variables three different kinds of pollutants (CO2, fine suspended particulates and waste), including as an explanation some financial variables never before considered in this kind of study.
Subjects: 
Dummy Variables
Environmental Kutznets Curve
Legal Families
Panel Data
Pollution Emissions
JEL: 
K4
Q0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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