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

Ugur Soytas; Ramazan Sari; Bradley T. Ewing

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.009

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

Ugur Soytas, Ramazan Sari, Bradley T. Ewing

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	482-489
Number of pages	8
Journal	Ecological Economics
Volume	62
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.009
State	Published - May 15 2007

Keywords

Carbon emissions
Economic growth
Energy consumption
Generalized impulse response functions
Generalized variance decompositions
Granger causality

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