Searching for a Kuznets curve in environmental efficiency using kernel estimation

doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00250-0

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2000-08

Author

Taskin, F.

Zaim, O.

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Economics Letters

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00250-0

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Department of Economics [152]

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Elsevier

Abstract

The paper constructs environmental efficiency indexes for a sample consisting of high- and low-income countries using nonparametric production frontier techniques and then establishes an environmental Kuznets relationship for environmental efficiency by Nadaraya-Watson kernel estimation methodology. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classification: Q25; Q32.

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Taskin, F., & Zaim, O. (2000). Searching for a Kuznets curve in environmental efficiency using kernel estimation. Economics letters, 68(2), 217-223.