TY - JOUR
T1 - Oil-Induced environmental Kuznets curve in organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)
AU - Saboori, Behnaz
AU - Al-Mulali, Usama
AU - Bin Baba, Maizan
AU - Mohammed, Abdul Hakim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/3/15
Y1 - 2016/3/15
N2 - This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in 10 of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). To realize the studys aims a time series model is built based on the period 1977-2008, utilizing the ecological footprint as an environmental indicator and income, labour, capital, oil consumption and oil price as economic indicators. Employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, by comparing the short and long-run income elasticities, the EKC hypothesis is present in six OPEC countries namely Algeria, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Qatar and Kuwait. Moreover, the Toda-Yamamoto-Dolado-Lütkepohl (TYDL) causality tests outcome show that, after oil consumption, the most significant factors in increasing ecological footprint are labor and capital. This implies the relocation of pollution intensive industries to almost all of the OPEC countries. However, oil prices reduce environmental damage by its negative effect on the ecological footprint. From the outcome of this study it is important for the investigated countries to reduce their consumption of fossil fuel energy since it represents an important source of pollution. This can be achieved by allocating more labor and capital in projects and investments on renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy saving.
AB - This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in 10 of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). To realize the studys aims a time series model is built based on the period 1977-2008, utilizing the ecological footprint as an environmental indicator and income, labour, capital, oil consumption and oil price as economic indicators. Employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, by comparing the short and long-run income elasticities, the EKC hypothesis is present in six OPEC countries namely Algeria, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Qatar and Kuwait. Moreover, the Toda-Yamamoto-Dolado-Lütkepohl (TYDL) causality tests outcome show that, after oil consumption, the most significant factors in increasing ecological footprint are labor and capital. This implies the relocation of pollution intensive industries to almost all of the OPEC countries. However, oil prices reduce environmental damage by its negative effect on the ecological footprint. From the outcome of this study it is important for the investigated countries to reduce their consumption of fossil fuel energy since it represents an important source of pollution. This can be achieved by allocating more labor and capital in projects and investments on renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy saving.
KW - ARDL cointegration
KW - OPEC countries
KW - TYDL causality tests
KW - ecological footprint
KW - oil consumption
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U2 - 10.1080/15435075.2014.961468
DO - 10.1080/15435075.2014.961468
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961901850
SN - 1543-5075
VL - 13
SP - 408
EP - 416
JO - International Journal of Green Energy
JF - International Journal of Green Energy
IS - 4
ER -