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ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 533-555Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-005-6160-x
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emissions distributions; environmental Kuznets curve; Markov transition matrix
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Understanding and considering the distribution of per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is important in designing international climate change proposals and incentives for participation. I evaluate historic international emissions distributions and forecast future distributions to assess whether per capita emissions have been converging or will converge. I find evidence of convergence among 23 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), whereas emissions appear to be diverging for an 88-country global sample over 1960-2000. Forecasts based on a Markov chain transition matrix provide little evidence of future emissions convergence and indicate that emissions may diverge in the near term. I also review the shortcomings of environmental Kuznets curve regressions and structural models in characterizing future emissions distributions.
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