Economic, demographic and political determinants of pollution reassessed
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2006Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of 208 countries covering the period 1960–2001. We find supportive evidence on the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve. Furthermore, mainly demographic variables and variables capturing the economic structure of a country contribute in explaining air and water pollution. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005139289Publication status
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KOF Working PapersVolume
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
Environment; Environmental Kuznets curve; AIR POLLUTION (ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS); WATER POLLUTION (ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS); UMWELTGESCHICHTE, UMWELTBELASTUNGSGESCHICHTE, UMWELTSCHUTZGESCHICHTE; WASSERVERUNREINIGUNG + GEWÄSSERVERUNREINIGUNG (UMWELTPROBLEME); UMWELTÖKONOMIE + ÖKOLOGISCHE WIRTSCHAFT; LUFTVERUNREINIGUNG (UMWELTPROBLEME); Sensitivity analysis; MODELLRECHNUNG UND SIMULATION IN DEN UMWELTWISSENSCHAFTEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE AND PROTECTION; Pollution; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS + ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICSOrganisational unit
03716 - Sturm, Jan-Egbert / Sturm, Jan-Egbert
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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