Logo
Munich Personal RePEc Archive

How Do Carbon Emissions Respond to Economic Shocks? Evidence from Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries

Shahbaz, Muhammad and Khraief, Naceur and Hammoudeh, Shawkat (2019): How Do Carbon Emissions Respond to Economic Shocks? Evidence from Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries.

[thumbnail of MPRA_paper_93976.pdf] PDF
MPRA_paper_93976.pdf

Download (291kB)

Abstract

In this study, we examine the stationarity of CO2 emissions per capita for 98 low-, middle- and high-income countries from 1975 to 2014. To this end, we conduct the nonlinear unit root test developed by Kruse (2011) given that nearly half of the series exhibit nonlinear behaviour over the time period. This empirical evidence provides support for the non-stationarity hypothesis that 50% of CO2 emissions are from middle-income countries. For the robustness check, we use the panel unit root tests described by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005) and Bai and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2009), which allow for structural breaks and cross-section dependence. The results provide evidence of stationarity for all three income groups.

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact us: mpra@ub.uni-muenchen.de

This repository has been built using EPrints software.

MPRA is a RePEc service hosted by Logo of the University Library LMU Munich.