The Relationship between Environment and Income:Regression Spline Approac

Rabia Ece Omay
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Rabia Ece Omay: Anadolu University, Science Faculty, Department of Statistics, Yunus Emre Campus, 26200, Eskisehir, Turkey

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2013, vol. 3, issue Special, 52 - 61

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the dominant contributor to the greenhouse effect, in Turkey. For time series data for the period 1980-2009 taking into account the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) was modeling. The results show that there are N-shaped relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth, so these findings do not support EKC hypothesis with inverted-U shaped curve. At this point, because of the presence of a cubic polynomial, regression spline method is used as a different approach and a new model has been proposed. The model gives better results according to different model selection criteria.

Keywords: Environmental Kuznets curve; CO2 emissions; regression spline; thin plate regression spline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C22 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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