DEES, Stephane

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3632699

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DEES, Stephane

Laboratoire d'analyse et de recherche en économie et finance internationales [Larefi]

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Emissions of pollutants tend to be procyclical as they generally increase with economic growth. However, as government policy has a role to play in the mitigation of the environmental consequences of economic activity, the quality of institutions may influence the procyclicality of pollution and reduce the environmental cost of economic growth. Based on the assumption that changes in emissions are stronger at earlier stages of development, we develop a non-linear framework and confirm first the presence of income-related threshold effects in the relationship between pollution (CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions) and growth, for a panel of 142 countries over a period spanning from 1960 to 2017. We also find that institutional quality influences this relationship, lowering both the value of the threshold and the degree of procyclicality of emissions. These results bring therefore evidence that higher institutional quality can attenuate the environmental externalities of economic growth.< Réduire

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CO2 Emissions

GHG Emissions

Economic Growth

Institutions

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Assessing the Role of Institutions in Limiting the Environmental Externalities of Economic Growth

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