An Examination on Environmental-Economic Relations in China with Nonlinear Specifications

摘要：

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution in China over the period 1989-2007. Conventional linear methods including the linear model and the log-linear model, and nonlinear methods with the Weibull and Gamma specifications are compared. It is shown that the nonlinear methods perform better than conventional linear methods. The results also suggest that with the rise of per capita GDP, per capita waste water emission appears an inverse U-shaped relationship, while per capita solid wastes generated and per capita waste gas emission take on unclear relationships, depending on different methods.

作者: Tao Song Tingguo Zheng

作者单位: Institue of Economics Xiamen University Xiamen, P.R.China The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics Xiamen University Xiamen, P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: International Conference on Management and Service Science(2011年第五届管理与服务科学国际会议 MASS 2011)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-5

在线出版日期: 2011-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）