relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1242/
title: The dynamics of delinking in industrial emissions: The role of productivity, trade and R&D
creator: Marin, Giovanni
creator: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
subject: GE Environmental Sciences
subject: HB Economic Theory
description: This paper provides new empirical evidence on delinking / Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) for greenhouse gases and other air pollutant emissions in Italy. We analysed a panel dataset based on the Italian NAMEA for 1990-2005 with a specific focus on industry. We integrated the emission-income NAMEA with data on trade openness and R&D expenditures. The highly disaggregated dataset provides a large heterogeneity and can help to overcome the shortcomings of the usual approach to EKC based on cross-country data. We use in this paper CO2, SOx, NOx and PM10 as objects of investigation. We use as empirical models of reference both a standard EKC model and a STIRPAT/IPAT model. Our results show that looking at sector evidence, both decupling and then eventually re-coupling trends could emerge along the path of economic development. The analysis of how stagnation periods affect environmental performances is also of interest.
publisher: Research Network on Innovation and De Boeck Université
date: 2009
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Marin, Giovanni and Mazzanti, Massimiliano  The dynamics of delinking in industrial emissions: The role of productivity, trade and R&D.  Journal of Innovation Economics, 3 (1).  p. 91.  ISSN 2032-5355      (2009)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/jie.003.0091
relation: 10.3917/jie.003.0091