Evidências sobre curva ambiental de Kuznets e convergência das emissões
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Environmental Kuznets Curve, Convergence of emissions, Economic growthAbstract
Recently many researchers started to study the relationship between economic growth
and pollution. Two distinct approaches followed from these studies: the Environmental
Kuznets Curve (EKC) and the convergence of emissions. In this context, Brock and Taylor
(2010) built a model that makes a bridge between both methodologies, as convergence
of emissions implies the EKC. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the EKC (in a
traditional way) and the model proposed by Brock and Taylor (2010) in order to verify if
the results reinforce each other. The estimates of the curve were sensitive to the model
chosen. The estimates of the model pointed to evidence of conditional convergence of
per capita emissions and of the EKC.
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