extended abstract introduction a lot of activities in environmental economics scope have concentrated on this question that why some developing countries suffer from environmental degradation, whereas other countries can maintain or enhance the environmental quality. with the collapse of communism and economic evolution of china, most people live, work and bargain in free market economies. henc...

the environmental kuznets curve (ekc) hypothesis posits an inverted u relationship between environmental pollutants and per capita income. recent researches have examined this hypothesis for different pollutants in different countries. however, so far a few number of ekc studies have been carried out in iran. this might be due to the lack of reliable environmental data in this field. the aim of...

abstract this study shows the relationship between environmental pollution and economical growth by kuznets hypothesis which has drived from provincial data during 1375 - 1385. carbon monoxide pollution as environmental index and gross national product as economical index have been used. fix effects have been preferred to random effects based on f test for estimation of environmental kuznets cu...

The rapid economic growth observed in Central European countries the last thirty years has been result of profound political changes and liberalization. This is partly connected with reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, problem CO2 emissions seems to remain unresolved. aim this paper test whether Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis holds true for an annual sample data that...

This paper analyzes the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis to test the causality relationship between economic activity, trade openness and carbon dioxide emissions in Mexico (1971-2011). The results achieved in this research show that there are three long-run relationships between production, trade openness, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The EKC hypothesis was not ...

In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted U-curve. However, recent evidence rejects the EKC hypothesis for GHG emissions in a broad sense. In this paper we analyze the driving factors of C...