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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Investigating linkages between economic growth, energy consumption and pollutant emissions in Tunisia
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| Autores: |
Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
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| Data: |
2009-06-10
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Pollutant emissions
Economic growth
Cointegration
Causality
Tunisia
Environmental Economics and Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
The aim of this study is to understand long and short-run linkages between economic growth, energy consumption and carbon emission using Tunisian data over the period 1971-2004. Cointegration procedure is used to analyze the time series properties of the series and error-correction terms were considered to test for the direction of Granger causality. Statistical findings indicate that economic growth, energy consumption and CO2 emission are related in the long-run and provide some evidence of inefficient use of energy in Tunisia, since environmental pressure tends to rise faster than economic growth. The short-run analysis, provide support for causality running from CO2 emissions growth to output growth, both in the short-run and the long-run. The results provide also some support of mutual causal and feedback relationship in the long-run. In addition, the results show strong evidence of causality running from output growth to energy consumption in the short-run and mutual causality in the long-run implying that Tunisia is an energy dependent economy. From a policy perspective, policy makers in Tunisia should be mindful that a persistent decline in environmental quality may exert negative externalities to the economy.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/50944
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China
Contributed Paper
652
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| Formato: |
14
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