Greenhouse Gas Emission Inefficiency Spillover Effects in European Countries

Authors

Levent Kutlu, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Ran Wang

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-23-2021

Abstract

In our study, we examine whether spatial spillover effects exist for greenhouse gas emission efficiency for 38 European countries between 2005 and 2014. We find that inefficiencies of other countries would lead to lower efficiency levels for a country. This negative inefficiency spillover effect goes down till 2008 then goes up till 2011, then stays relatively stable after 2011. Any strategy to reduce inefficiencies of other countries could potentially improve the efficiency levels. We find that human development index shows significant positive impact on greenhouse gas emission efficiency levels. In particular, one standard deviation increase in human development index would lead to a 11.12 percentage points increase in the greenhouse gas emission efficiencies on average. Different countries show different efficiency levels and efficiency growth patterns over time. However, the pattern of spatial spillover is quite similar among all countries over time.

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Recommended Citation

Kutlu, L.; Wang, R. Greenhouse Gas Emission Inefficiency Spillover Effects in European Countries. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4479. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18094479

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Publication Title

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

DOI

10.3390/ ijerph18094479