Testing for Convergence in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Using a Century of Panel Data

By Joakim Westerlund, S. Basher. 2008

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This paper tests the convergence in per-capita carbon dioxide emissions for a collection of developed and developing countries using data spanning the period 1870–2002. For this purpose, three recently developed panel unit root tests that permit for dependence among the individual countries are employed. The results lend strong support in favor of convergence for the panel as a whole. Estimates of the speed of this convergence is also provided.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Stochastic convergence in per capita CO2 emissions. An approach from nonlinear stationarity analysis (2015, methodology): “From a panel unit root perspective, Westerlund and Basher (2008) –following the notion of convergence proposed by Evans (1998)- test for convergence in per capita carbon dioxide emissions on a collection of developed and developing countries.”
Club convergence and clustering of U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions (2016, unknown): “Each methodology examines the existence of a different type of convergence (Strazicich & List, 2003; Westerlund & Basher, 2008; Nguyen-Van, 2005; Ezcurra, 2007; Romero-Avila, 2008; Stegman, 2005).”
Convergence in per capita CO2 emissions: a robust distributional approach (2011, background): “…political groupings supports previous studies which found convergence over the 1960-2002 period within the OECD countries (Strazicich and List 2003, Westerlund and Basher 2008, Romero-Ávila 2008 and Panopoulou and Pantelidis 2009) or the European members, and divergence in the OPEC economies…”
Greenhouse gases emissions, growth and the energy mix in Europe: a dynamic panel data approach (2009, background): “Strazicich and List (2003), Alby (2006), Westerlund and Basher (2008), Romero-Ávila (2008) have provided evidence of convergence (deterministic and stochastic) in CO2 emissions for different sets of industrialised countries using cross-sections and panel unit root tests.5 Our empirical analysis is…”
On the non-convergence of energy intensities: Evidence from a pair-wise econometric approach (2010, unknown): “Avila (2008) and Westerlund and Basher (2008) for carbon dioxide”