TY - JOUR
T1 - Does trade matter for environmental degradation in developing countries? New evidence in the context of export product diversification
AU - Can, Muhlis
AU - Dogan, Buhari
AU - Saboori, Behnaz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Global warming is a serious problem facing the world today. To minimize it, scholars are trying to find the reasons behind increasing CO2 emissions. This study examines the effects of overall export product diversification, extensive margin, and intensive margin on CO2 emissions as indicators of environmental degradation in 84 developing countries for the period of 1971–2014 in the context of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using three estimators, namely, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test, dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), and fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS). The empirical findings reveal that EKC hypothesis is valid. The overall empirical findings from various approaches show that overall diversification, extensive margin, and intensive margin have a positive and significant effect on CO2 emissions.
AB - Global warming is a serious problem facing the world today. To minimize it, scholars are trying to find the reasons behind increasing CO2 emissions. This study examines the effects of overall export product diversification, extensive margin, and intensive margin on CO2 emissions as indicators of environmental degradation in 84 developing countries for the period of 1971–2014 in the context of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using three estimators, namely, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test, dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), and fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS). The empirical findings reveal that EKC hypothesis is valid. The overall empirical findings from various approaches show that overall diversification, extensive margin, and intensive margin have a positive and significant effect on CO2 emissions.
KW - Environmental degradation
KW - Export product diversification
KW - Extensive margin
KW - Intensive margin
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-020-08000-2
DO - 10.1007/s11356-020-08000-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 32052330
AN - SCOPUS:85079899465
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 27
SP - 14702
EP - 14710
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 13
ER -