Does energy substitution affect carbon dioxide emissions - Income relationship?

Tetsuya Tsurumi; Shunsuke Managi

doi:10.1016/j.jjie.2010.01.005

Does energy substitution affect carbon dioxide emissions - Income relationship?

Tetsuya Tsurumi, Shunsuke Managi

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	540-551
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjie.2010.01.005
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

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title = "Does energy substitution affect carbon dioxide emissions - Income relationship?",

abstract = "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.",

author = "Tetsuya Tsurumi and Shunsuke Managi",

note = "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. ",

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