Empirical estimates of the methane–income elasticity
| Autor: | Doris Oberdabernig, Octavio Fernández-Amador, Joseph Francois, Patrick Tomberger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Methane emissions
Consumption (economics) Economics and Econometrics 05 social sciences 300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology Sample (statistics) Decoupling (cosmology) 380 Commerce communications & transportation Methane 330 Economics chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry 0502 economics and business Per capita Econometrics Economics Production (economics) 050207 economics Income elasticity of demand Finance 050205 econometrics |
| DOI: | 10.7892/boris.119248 |
| Popis: | We estimate the income-elasticity of methane emissions per capita derived from production, final production, and consumption in a global sample of countries for 1997–2011. We find relative decoupling between emissions and income, and evidence for a piecewise-linear relationship. The relation between economic growth and emissions improves as countries reach high levels of income, although the magnitude of the improvement is small. This points to very minor methane-efficiency gains from economic development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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