Hold Your Breath: A New Index of Air Quality
Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to 2005. Th...
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ftubmarburg:oai:archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de:urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-0140 2024-02-04T10:01:29+01:00 Hold Your Breath: A New Index of Air Quality Buehn, Andreas Wirtschaftswissenschaften Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2012 https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0140 eng eng Philipps-Universität Marburg https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0140 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0 MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics Economics Wirtschaft ddc:330 Development Air quality Emissions MIMIC model EKC hypothesis Work doc-type:report Text 2012 ftubmarburg https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0140 2024-01-07T23:34:24Z Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to 2005. The empirical analysis supports the EKC hypothesis and shows a significant influence of determinants such as energy efficiency, industrial production, electricity produced from coal sources, and urbanization on air quality. According to our index, Luxemburg, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and Japan are among the top 5 countries in terms of air quality performance. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Togo, and Nepal performed worst in 2005. Report Iceland Philipps-Universität Marburg: Publications Norway |
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Environmental quality and climate change have long attracted attention in policy debates. Recently, air quality has emerged on the policy agenda. We calculate a new index of air quality using CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita as indicators and provide a ranking for 122 countries from 1985 to 2005. The empirical analysis supports the EKC hypothesis and shows a significant influence of determinants such as energy efficiency, industrial production, electricity produced from coal sources, and urbanization on air quality. According to our index, Luxemburg, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and Japan are among the top 5 countries in terms of air quality performance. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Togo, and Nepal performed worst in 2005. |
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