Pollution, Energy and Growth: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries

Authors

  • Avazbek Sadikov
  • Nargiza Kasimova
  • Arletta Isaeva
  • Anastas Khachaturov
  • Raufhon Salahodjaev

Abstract

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth and energy use in post-communistic countries during 1990-2018. Pedroni's (1999) panel cointegration test discovered cointegrating relationship between the variables. To distinguish short- and long-term effect, as well as to account for homogeneity caused by previous common socio-political system and current country specific characteristics, Pesaran's (1999) Pooled Mean Group estimator is employed. PMG estimates identified short- and long-term relationship between energy use and CO2 emissions and short-term relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth.  Finally, the Dumitrescu and Hurlin's (2012) Granger non-causality test for heterogeneous panels revealed bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions, energy use and economic growth. Keywords: CO2 emissions, economic growth, energy consumption, post-communistic countries.JEL Classifications: C23, P18, O47DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.9637

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Published

2020-10-10

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Sadikov, A., Kasimova, N., Isaeva, A., Khachaturov, A., & Salahodjaev, R. (2020). Pollution, Energy and Growth: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 10(6), 656–661. Retrieved from https://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/9637

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Vol. 10 No. 6 (2020)

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