Energy consumption, income, and carbon emissions in the United States

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2007-05-15

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Soytaş, Uğur
Sarı, Ramazan

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This paper investigates the effect of energy consumption and output on carbon emissions in the United States. Earlier research focused on testing the existence and/or shape of an environmental Kuznets curve without taking energy consumption into account. We investigate the Granger causality relationship between income, energy consumption, and carbon emissions, including labor and gross fixed capital formation in the model. We find that income does not Granger cause carbon emissions in the US in the long run, but energy use does. Hence, income growth by itself may not become a solution to environmental problems.

Subject Keywords

Energy consumption, Carbon emissions, Economic growth, Granger causality, Generalized impulse, Response functions, Generalized variance, Decompositions

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34333

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ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.009

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Department of Business Administration, Article

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U. Soytaş and R. Sarı, “Energy consumption, income, and carbon emissions in the United States,” ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, pp. 482–489, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34333.