Long-run determinants of pollution: A robustness analysis

Michael Lamla

Ecological Economics, 2009, vol. 69, issue 1, 135-144

Abstract: This paper examines how robust economic, political, and demographic variables are related to water and air pollution. Employing Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) for a cross section of 47 countries, 34 variables and 3 proxies for air and water pollution over a period from 1980 to 2000 we confirm the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis and highlight the relevance of variables that are not directly related to production.

Keywords: Pollution; Environmental; Kuznets; curve; Sensitivity; analysis; Bayesian; model; averaging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Long-run Determinants of Pollution: A Robustness Analysis (2007)
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