Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US regions

George Halkos and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 1, 48-52

Abstract: This paper proposes a conditional directional distance function estimator in order to examine the link between regional environmental efficiency and GDP per capita levels. As an illustrative example we apply our model to US regional data revealing an inverted ‘U’ shape relationship between regional environmental efficiency and per capita income. The results derived from a non-parametric regression indicate a turning point at 49,000 dollars.

Keywords: Regional environmental efficiency; Directional distance function; Conditional measures; US regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 Q50 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.043

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