ÖZTÜRK, Zafer Bülent Ecevit University - Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science - Economics Department, Turkey , YILDIRIM, Ertuğrul Bülent Ecevit University - Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science - Economics Department, Turkey

ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE IN THE MINT COUNTRIES: EVIDENCE OF LONG-RUN PANEL CAUSALITY TEST

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The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis (EKC) urges that there is an inverse-U-shaped relationship between carbon dioxide emission per capita and income per capita. Although there is lots of paper attempting to test the EKC hypothesis, the reported empirical results and conclusions are ambiguous. Departing from previous literature, this study focusses on two issues. Firstly, it examines the MINT countries which is neglected in the extend EKC literature. The MINT countries consist of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. The annual GDP per capita and carbon dioxide emissions per capita were obtained from the World Development Indicators 2013. The data set includes the period of 1967-2010, due to the availability of data. Secondly, the long run panel causality test suggested by Canning and Pedroni (2008) is used the test EKC hypothesis. Results of this study supported the EKC hypothesis only in the case of Nigeria.

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Carbon dioxide emission , Economic growth , Long , run panel causality test

The International Journal Of Economic and Social Research

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