CO2EMISSIONS AND REGIONAL INCOME DISPARITY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

Lin Guo ()
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Lin Guo: Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa-Ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2014, vol. 59, issue 01, 1-20

Abstract: In this paper, we propose the hypothesis: Given the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis, regional income inequality has a negative, indirect impact on the average level ofCO2emissions through decreasing marginal emission propensities (MEP) of GDP. We have employed a vector error correction model and three inequality measures in our empirical analysis. The empirical results support the hypothesis in China. The main findings of this paper suggest that a trade-off exists between reducingCO2emissions and narrowing regional income disparity and that the MEP contributes to this negative effect.

Keywords: CO2emissions; regional income disparity; environmental Kuznets curve; JEL Classification: Q54; JEL Classification: O44; JEL Classification: O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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