Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50830 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 129
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of 208 countries covering the period 1960-2001. We find supportive evidence on the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve. Furthermore, mainly demographic variables and variables capturing the economic structure of a country contribute in explaining air and water pollution.
Subjects: 
pollution
environment
sensitivity analysis
environmental Kuznets curve
JEL: 
C52
F18
L60
O13
Q53
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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