Digital economy and carbon dioxide emissions: Examining the role of threshold variables
China University of Petroleum, East China · Osmaniye Korkut Ata University · +1 more institution
Abstract
Considering that previous literature has mainly focused on the impact of the digital economy (DE) on environmental degradation, ignoring the role of natural resources, this study uses two key factors (natural resource rent and anticorruption regulation) as threshold variables to reveal the effect of natural resources on the association between DE and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In doing so, the study covers 97 countries, uses annual data between 2003 and 2019, and applies a panel threshold model. The outcomes present that the influence of the DE on CO2 emissions has a single-threshold effect (i.e., there is an inverted U-shaped link between the DE and CO2 emissions) when natural resource rent is the…
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5Topics & keywords
- Natural resource
- Natural resource economics
- Variable (mathematics)
- Greenhouse gas
- Economics
- Resource (disambiguation)
- Carbon dioxide
- Natural gas
- Peace, Justice and strong institutions