Searching for a Kuznets curve in environmental efficiency using kernel estimation

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2000

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Taskin, F.
Zaim, O.

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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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Economics Letters

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Elsevier BV

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Environmental Kuznets curve, Kernel estimation, Nonparametric methods

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