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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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/73083 2024-01-14T10:07:57+01:00 Hold your breath: A new index of air quality Buehn, Andreas Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73083 eng eng Marburg: Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 26-2012 gbv-ppn:715720007 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73083 RePEc:mar:MAGKSE:201226 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 Q56 Q58 Air quality MIMIC model EKC hypothesis Development Emissions Luftverunreinigung Luftreinhaltung Sozialer Indikator Kohlendioxid Schwefeldioxid Environmental Kuznets Curve Welt doc-type:workingPaper 2012 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-18T00:47:57Z 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 EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) 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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