Using the Box-Cox transformation to approximate the shape of the relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP: a note

Mariana Conte Grand (mcg@ucema.edu.ar) and Vanesa D´Elia
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Vanesa Valeria D'Elia

No 513, CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo. from Universidad del CEMA

Abstract: With CAIT WRI data for those countries which submitted quantifiable CO2 emission caps under the Copenhagen Agreement, this note supports the existence of a long run relationship between CO2 emissions and GDP in 11 of the 26 countries in our sample over the period 1980-2008. However, the functional specification of that relationship is not homogenous among nations, being linear for 2 countries, log-log for 2 other cases, while the relationship follows a Box-Cox functional form for 7 nations. Elasticities of the emissions-income relationship also differ among counties. But in most cases (8 out of 11), the magnitude of the average elasticity is less than 1 (emissions increase less than GDP).

Keywords: CO2 emissions; sustainable development; Box-Cox (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages
Date: 2013-07
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