ABSTRACT
This paper sheds further lights on the environmental Kuznets curve literature by considering a new possible driving factor of environmental quality, the economic complexity. The results consistently show that there exists an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic complexity and CO2 emissions.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
Hidalgo, C. A., and R. Hausmann. 2009. “The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (26): 10570–10575. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900943106. Hausmann, R., C. A. Hidalgo, S. Bustos, M. Coscia, A. Simoes, and M. A. Yıldırım. 2011. The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity. Center for International Development at Harvard University and Macro Connections MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Can, M., and B. Doğan. 2017. “The Effects of Economic Structural Transformation on Employment.” In Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization, edited by F. Yenilmez and E. Kilic, 275–306. IGI Global Publishing. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2008-5.ch016.
![Sample our Economics, Finance,Business & Industry journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5931/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Economics-Finance-Business-Industry.jpg"})