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Spatial Dependence in the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Pellicer Carrasquer, Anna LU (2022) NEKN01 20212
Department of Economics
Abstract
This essay aims to detect spatial autocorrelation present in the EKC relationship, as well as to find empirical evidence of said relationship. A panel data of 176 countries for the period 1990-2018 is used for the empirical part. Several spatial models are considered in this essay, namely the SDM, SAR model, SAC model and SEM. The main conclusions are: (i) there exists significant spatial autocorrelation in the CO2 emissions, (ii) significant evidence for a direct EKC relationship is found, (iii) the renewable energy consumption and the CO2 emissions are significantly and negatively correlated, (iv) among all models considered in this essay the SAR model with time and spatial fixed effects is the one with less information loss.
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author
Pellicer Carrasquer, Anna LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20212
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
environmental Kuznets curve, spatial autocorrelation, panel data, CO2 emissions, renewable energy consumption
language
English
id
9074276
date added to LUP
2022-02-22 11:20:18
date last changed
2022-02-22 11:20:18
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  abstract     = {{This essay aims to detect spatial autocorrelation present in the EKC relationship, as well as to find empirical evidence of said relationship. A panel data of 176 countries for the period 1990-2018 is used for the empirical part. Several spatial models are considered in this essay, namely the SDM, SAR model, SAC model and SEM. The main conclusions are: (i) there exists significant spatial autocorrelation in the CO2 emissions, (ii) significant evidence for a direct EKC relationship is found, (iii) the renewable energy consumption and the CO2 emissions are significantly and negatively correlated, (iv) among all models considered in this essay the SAR model with time and spatial fixed effects is the one with less information loss.}},
  author       = {{Pellicer Carrasquer, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Spatial Dependence in the Environmental Kuznets Curve}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}