Gibrat’s law for CO2 emissions

Behzod B. Ahundjanov and Sherzod Akhundjanov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 526, issue C

Abstract: In this study, we analyze the statistical properties of the growth process of national CO2 emissions for over 200 countries and territories for the period 1995–2010. The results from empirical analysis establish that Gibrat’s law of proportionate effect holds for CO2 emissions, indicating that national CO2 emissions grow proportionately over time. Gibrat’s law is also confirmed for CO2 emission per capita, while weak evidence is found for CO2 emission per dollar of GDP.

Keywords: CO2 emission; Gibrat’s law; Proportionate growth process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C46 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437119305904
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
Working Paper: Gibrat's Law for CO2 Emissions (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:526:y:2019:i:c:s0378437119305904

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.04.180

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().