CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in BRIC countries

被引:633
作者
Pao, Hsiao-Tien [1 ]
Tsai, Chung-Ming [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Dept Management Sci, Hsinchu, Taiwan
关键词
Carbon dioxide emission; Error correction model; BRIC; UNIT-ROOT TESTS; ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION; KUZNETS CURVE; PANEL-DATA; CARBON EMISSIONS; ERROR-CORRECTION; COINTEGRATION; INCOME; REGRESSION; CAUSALITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.enpol.2010.08.045
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper examines dynamic causal relationships between pollutant emissions, energy consumption and output for a panel of BRIC countries over the period 1971-2005, except for Russia (1990-2005) In long-run equilibrium energy consumption has a positive and statistically significant impact on emissions, while real output exhibits the inverted U-shape pattern associated with the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis with the threshold income of 5 393 (in logarithms). In the short term, changes in emissions are driven mostly by the error correction term and short term energy consumption shocks, as opposed to short term output shocks for each country. Short-term deviations from the long term equilibrium take from 0 770 years (Russia) to 5.848 years (Brazil) to correct The panel causality results indicate there are energy consumption-emissions bidirectional strong causality and energy consumption-output bidirectional long-run causality, along with unidirectional both strong and short-run causalities from emissions and energy consumption, respectively, to output Overall, in order to reduce emissions and not to adversely affect economic growth, increasing both energy supply investment and energy efficiency, and stepping up energy conservation policies to reduce unnecessary wastage of energy can be initiated for energy-dependent BRIC countries (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
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页码:7850 / 7860
页数:11
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