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- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- Copyright
- Copyright ©
- Subject
- Special Issue on Income Distribution & Inequality; Guest Editor: Yuko Arayama, Nagoya University
- ISSN
- 0217-5908
- eISSN
- 1793-6837
- DOI
- 10.1142/S0217590814500076
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the hypothesis: Given the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis, regional income inequality has a negative, indirect impact on the average level of CO2 emissions through decreasing marginal emission propensities (MEP) of GDP. We have employed a vector error correction model and three inequality measures in our empirical analysis. The empirical results support the hypothesis in China. The main findings of this paper suggest that a trade-off exists between reducing CO2 emissions and narrowing regional income disparity and that the MEP contributes to this negative effect.
Journal
The Singapore Economic Review – World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Mar 1, 2014
Keywords: CO 2 emissions regional income disparity environmental Kuznets curve JEL Classification: Q54 JEL Classification: O44 JEL Classification: O15