Current research assesses the impact of industrialization and renewable energy sector on greenhouse gas emissions, proxied by CO2 emissions in Europe Central Asia. We rely a two-step system GMM estimator sample 48 countries over period 2000–2018. Empirical results show that has positive effect emissions: 10% increase industry value added as % GDP leads to an 2.6% emissions. In contrast, mitigat...

Driven by the development of oil and gas sector, Qatar has made remarkable economic achievements over past few decades. However, Qatar’s high dependence on fossil fuels resulted in a rapid increase its CO 2 emissions. As such, country may be facing trade-off between achieving continued growth carbon emissions reductions. This study empirically analyzes relationship Qatar, using annual data inco...

Several recent papers propose competing theoretical explanations for the empirical observation of an inverted U-shape relationship between enviromental degradation and per-capita income. We proprose the following test of the theory: calibrate a theoretical model to an already developed economy using information unrelated to the pollution-income curve. Then simulate the model starting from a les...

This paper finds that age distribution, educational attainment, and government size converge across the US states at rates rather similar to the convergence rate for per capita income. The main part of the paper takes age distribution variables as exogenous in conditional convergence regressions. Using panel data, the estimated partial relation between age and the subsequent growth rate of per ...