The Environmental Kuznets Curve Semi-Parametrically Revisited

By Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl. 2005

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This paper re-examines the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) across countries using a semi-parametric regression estimator, which places no restrictions on the functional form. Our results using cross-country panel data on Sulfur and Carbon Dioxide strongly suggest that the relationship between wealth and environmental degradation is not bell-shaped, as suggested by an EKC. Rather that there is a positive link for the very poorest countries and no clear relationshipfor richer countries.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Decomposition of the environmental Kuznets curve: scale, technique, and composition effects (2010, unknown): “Bertinelli and Strobl (2005) also use a semiparametric regression estimator for a panel of countries for 1950–1990, and for SO2 and CO2 they fi nd a positive relationship at low incomes, which fl attens out before increasing again at high incomes.”
Environment and development: is there a Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions? (2009, background): “Bertinelli and Strobl (2005) cannot reject a linear relationship between per capita income and sulphur and carbon dioxide emissions.”
How does carbon dioxide emission change with the economic development? Statistical experiences from 132 countries (2013, background): “For comprehensive and profound reviews of EKC-based theory and empirical studies, see Stern (2004), Müller-Fürstenberger and Wagner (2007) and Carson (2010). Another branch of the studies performing econometric analysis employ non-parametric or semi-parametric methods to examine the emission–income ”
Environmental Kuznets Curve for CO2 in Canada (2010, methodology): “Important papers in this category include Schmalensee et al. (1998) who used spline regressions, Taskin and Zaim (2000) and Azomahou et al. (2005), who used nonparametric regressions to investigate the EKC for CO2 emissions with cross-country data, Millimet et al. (2003) and Roy et al. (2004), who e”
Economic development and CO2 emissions: A nonparametric panel approach (2006, methodology): “It is conceivable that the same kind of misspecification 15 affects the conclusions of Aslanidis and Xepapadeas (2004) and Bertinelli and Strobl (2005), since they also use fixed-effects type estimators.”
Voluntary disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and business performance: assessing the first decade of reporting (2017, unknown): “Contradictory evidence has been found affirming and disputing the presence of curves at different levels of aggregation (see, for example, P rman and Stern 2003, Millimet al. 2003, Dinda 2004, Bertinelli and Strobl, 2005, Chimeli and Braden 2005, Fernández t al.”