The environmental Kuznets curve for Ghgs

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Νιφόρα, Χριστίνα
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nifora, Christina
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: 2020
• Θέματα: Environmental Kuznets Curve; Greenhouse gases; Περιβαλλοντική καμπύλη Kuznet; Αέρια θερμοκηπίου

In this dissertation we investigate the relationship between greenhouse gases and number of employees in firm level over period 2010-2017, using panel data for firms are located in the Belgium and Netherlands.We include additional explanatory variables such as industry sector and regions.The estimation methods applied the fixed effect and random effect model for testing the validity of EKC hypothesis. Our empirical results are confirmed the existence of Environmental Kuznets Curve and the different shapes of EKC, namely inverted-U shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve (original pattern), monotonic decreasing relationship,U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve and opposite to the N-shaped curve that became from the estimated models.