The connection between urbanization and carbon emissions: a panel evidence from West Africa

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Title

The connection between urbanization and carbon emissions: a panel evidence from West Africa

Creator

Mohammed Musah, Yusheng Kong, Isaac Adjei Mensah, Stephen Kwadwo Antwi, Mary Donkor

Description

This study examined the nexus between urbanization and carbon emissions in West Africa. Second-generation econometric techniques that are robust to cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity were used for the study. From the Pesaran–Yamagata homogeneity test, the slope coefficients were heterogeneous in nature. Also, the Breusch–Pagan LM test, the Pesaran scaled LM test, bias-corrected LM test, Pesaran CD test and the Friedman’s test confirmed the studied panels to be cross-sectionally dependent. Further, the CADF and the CIPS unit root tests established the variables to be first-differenced stationary. Additionally, the Westerlund and Edgerton bootstrap cointegration test and the Pedroni residual cointegration test affirmed the series to be cointegrated in the long run. The Driscoll–Kraay standard errors regression estimator was employed to examine the long-run equilibrium …

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Date

2021

Source

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-U-tBVYAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-U-tBVYAAAAJ:-f6ydRqryjwC

Language

English