What Drives Carbon Emissions in OECD Countries?

dc.contributor.authorCan, Ufuk
dc.contributor.authorCan, Zeynep Gizem
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-27T07:33:25Z
dc.date.available2026-02-27T07:33:25Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe intensification of carbon emissions poses a critical challenge to global ecological stability. This study employs panel quantile regression techniques alongside extensive preliminary diagnostics and robustness analyses to identify the principal determinants of consumption-based carbon emissions across 38 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members. Empirical findings reveal that demographic scale, economic output, international trade, and technological advancement significantly influence emission levels, lending support to both the trade-adjusted environmental Kuznets curve and the stochastic impacts by regression on population, affluence, and technology hypotheses. Furthermore, policy instruments such as environmental taxation and green finance play substantive roles in emission mitigation, with green finance demonstrating particular efficacy. This study makes a significant contribution to the current literature on ecological economics by shedding light on the pivotal factors of carbon emissions across various quantiles and cross-sections.JEL Classification: C31, H23, Q54, Q56
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/21582440251391908
dc.identifier.issn2158-2440
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440251391908
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/4562
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001605535100001
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Inc
dc.relation.ispartofSage Open
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20260302
dc.subjectCO2 emissions
dc.subjectgreen finance
dc.subjectOECD
dc.subjectpanel quantile regression
dc.subjectenvironmental sustainability
dc.titleWhat Drives Carbon Emissions in OECD Countries?
dc.typeArticle

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