Searching for a Kuznets curve in environmental efficiency using kernel estimation
Date
2000
Authors
Taskin, F.
Zaim, O.
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Source Title
Economics Letters
Print ISSN
0165-1765
Electronic ISSN
1873-7374
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
68
Issue
2
Pages
217 - 223
Language
English
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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.