Trade openness, urbanization and CO2 emissions: Dynamic panel data analysis of middle-income countries
By Zhike Lv, Ting Xu. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018
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ABSTRACT Using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach of Pesaran, Shin, and Smith [1999. “Pooled Mean Group Estimation of Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 94 (446): 621–634], this article attempts to empirically examine the heterogeneous effects of trade openness and urbanization on CO2 emissions in 55 middle-income countries over the period from 1992 to 2012. We find that trade openness has a benign effect on the environment in the short run, but a harmful effect in the long run. Meanwhile, our results show that urbanization has a negative and significant impact on CO2 emissions both in the short and long run, implying that urbanization improves environmental quality. The results are robust even after controlling for a number of factors such as economic or non-economic factors.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries (2019, result): “Though, Lv and Xu (2018), Ulucak and Bilgili (2018) have found trade openness to have negative environmental consequences, the results of our study contradict their finding.”