TY - JOUR
T1 - Does energy substitution affect carbon dioxide emissions - Income relationship?
AU - Tsurumi, Tetsuya
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the anonymous referee for helpful comments. This research was funded by the Japanese Ministry of Environment and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The results and conclusions of this paper do not necessary represent the views of the funding agencies.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Considerable discussion has taken place during the last decade regarding the role of economic growth in determining environmental quality. Using data from 30 OECD countries for the period 1960-2003 and the nonparametric method of generalized additive models, which enables us to use flexible functional forms, this paper examines the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for carbon dioxide (CO2). We find that the reduction of coal share in energy use has a significant effect on CO2. Our results imply that economic growth is not sufficient to decrease CO2 emissions.
AB - Considerable discussion has taken place during the last decade regarding the role of economic growth in determining environmental quality. Using data from 30 OECD countries for the period 1960-2003 and the nonparametric method of generalized additive models, which enables us to use flexible functional forms, this paper examines the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for carbon dioxide (CO2). We find that the reduction of coal share in energy use has a significant effect on CO2. Our results imply that economic growth is not sufficient to decrease CO2 emissions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jjie.2010.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jjie.2010.01.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649796028
VL - 24
SP - 540
EP - 551
JO - Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
JF - Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
SN - 0889-1583
IS - 4
ER -