R&D intensity and carbon emissions in the G7: 1870–2014
By Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, J. Inekwe, Russell Smyth *, Xibin Zhang. Energy Economics, 2019
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Abstract We examine the effect of research and development (R&D) intensity on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Group of Seven (G7) countries since the nineteenth century using a non-parametric panel data model. Our estimates suggest that the relationship between R&D and CO2 emissions is time-varying. The estimated time-varying coefficient function of R&D was negative for three quarters of the period studied, but was positive for a 35-year period (1955–1990) during the second half of the twentieth century. Our non-parametric local linear estimates show that the common trend functions gradually increased for the first 110 years (1870–1980), but then flattened out and showed a slight decrease for the next three decades.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Interplay between technological innovation and environmental quality: Formulating the SDG policies for next 11 economies (2020, background): “Similar recently published empirical studies have used the Chudik and Pesaran (2015) or 30 similar test to verify that dependence on the cross sections is absent in the models (Zhang, et al, 2017, 31 Churchill et al., 2019).”
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