Qin, Duo (2010) Long-term Nexus of Industrial Pollution and Income in China. Working Paper No.659. Department of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London.
Abstract
This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel data. Four types of pollutants are modelled: waste water, solid wastes, soot and SO2 emission. Two types of income effects are considered: the scale and growth effects. The study finds little evidence of inverse U shape curves as postulated by EKC models; pollutant emissions may go positively or negatively with income irrespective of income levels whereas certain sign of alleviation in pollutant concentration due to income growth is discernible; trade is found to be insignificant while the hazardous nature of pollutants appears to be an important factor for heterogeneity in the income effect estimates; the heterogeneity cautions us against simple panel model specification.
Item Type: | Monographs and Working Papers (Working Paper) |
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SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Economics |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2011 08:44 |
URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/12199 |
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