Verification of the hypothesis of the 'Environmental Kuznets Curve' basing on evidence of carbon dioxide emission in the OECD countries

• Authors: Kukla-Gryz A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

According to the 'Environmental Kuznets Curve' (EKC) hypothesis, the level of pollutant emission grows along with the initial stage of economic development and, then, diminishes with further economic development. Usually, the EKC hypothesis is explained by three effects: the scale effect, the structure (or composition) effect and the income effect. In this paper, a verification of the EKC was undertaken basing on the example of the carbon dioxide emission by the industry in the OECD countries, this time the attention being concentrated on the two less popular effects: the 'shock' effect and the effect related to the 'pollution heaven hypothesis' (the 'dirty production migration' effect). As an example of the 'shock' the petroleum crisis of the seventies was chosen. The verification results showed a substantial impact of the petroleum crisis on the change in the carbon dioxide emission by industry and, at the same time, unimportance of the 'pollution heaven' effect.

Keywords

EN

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION (OECD COUNTRIES)

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ekonomia. Rynek, Gospodarka, Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2004
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 113-135
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kukla-Gryz A.

• A. Kukla-Gryz, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Nauk Ekonomicznych, Katedra Mikroekonomii, ul. Dluga 44/50, 00-241 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA0035867