Are Per Capita CO2 Emissions Increasing Among OECD Countries? A Test of Trends and Breaks

Satoshi Yamazaki, Jing Tian () and Firmin Doko Tchatoka

No 17518, Working Papers from University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics

Abstract: We empirically analyze the trend characteristics of per capita CO2 emissions in OECD countries from 1971 to 2009. We use a statistically robust procedure, which is valid regardless of whether per capita CO2 emissions are trend stationary or contain a stochastic trend, to test for the presence of a deterministic trend and a structural break in the trend. Our results suggest that the trend in per capita CO2 emissions shifts downward or is reversed for a number of OECD countries either after the 1970s oil shocks or during the early to mid-2000s.

Keywords: carbon dioxide; trend; structural break; robust test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2013-09-29, Revised 2013-09-29
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Published by the University of Tasmania. Discussion paper 2013-09

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