Effects of export concentration on CO2 emissions in developed countries: an empirical analysis

This paper provides the evidence on the short- and the long-run effects of the export product concentration on the level of CO 2 emissions in 19 developed (high-income) economies, spanning the period 1962–2010. To this end, the paper makes use of the nonlinear panel unit root and cointegration tests...

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Published inEnvironmental science and pollution research international Vol. 25; no. 14; pp. 14106 - 14116
Main Authors Apergis, Nicholas, Can, Muhlis, Gozgor, Giray, Lau, Chi Keung Marco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aquatic Pollution
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Autoregressive models
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions
Developed countries
Earth and Environmental Science
Economic models
Ecotoxicology
Empirical analysis
Environment
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Health
Environmental Kuznets curve
Environmental science
Exports
Quantiles
Regression analysis
Research Article
Waste Water Technology
Water Management
Water Pollution Control
Export product concentration
O13
C33
Q56
Carbon dioxide emissions
Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis
Panel quantile regression
Panel cointegration
Q53
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Summary:This paper provides the evidence on the short- and the long-run effects of the export product concentration on the level of CO 2 emissions in 19 developed (high-income) economies, spanning the period 1962–2010. To this end, the paper makes use of the nonlinear panel unit root and cointegration tests with multiple endogenous structural breaks. It also considers the mean group estimations, the autoregressive distributed lag model, and the panel quantile regression estimations. The findings illustrate that the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is valid in the panel dataset of 19 developed economies. In addition, it documents that a higher level of the product concentration of exports leads to lower CO 2 emissions. The results from the panel quantile regressions also indicate that the effect of the export product concentration upon the per capita CO 2 emissions is relatively high at the higher quantiles.
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ISSN:0944-1344
1614-7499
DOI:10.1007/s11356-018-1634-x