Technological Progress and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in the Twenty Regions of Italy

Baiardi Donatella ()
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Baiardi Donatella: Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Business Strategies, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, Building U6, Room 3055, I20126 Milano, Italy

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, vol. 14, issue 4, 1501-1542

Abstract: The paper explores the relationship between per capita income and three air pollutants, CO, NMVOCs, and SOx, using a novel dataset based on the 20 regions of Italy. Given the central role of technological progress in long-term environmental problems, we empirically investigate the influence of innovation on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The estimation results validate the existence of an EKC for the three air pollutants considered. Furthermore, the influence of innovation on the inverse-U-shaped curve identified by the theoretical literature is in general empirically confirmed. Finally, the same conclusions also hold when using another dataset related to the aggregate national economy rather than separate regions.

Keywords: air pollutants; environmental Kuznets curve; Italian regions; technological progress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 Q53 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2013-0120

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