Três ensaios empíricos sobre crescimento econômico e meio ambiente

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, José Martins dos
• Orientador(a): Marquetti, Adalmir Antônio
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia do Desenvolvimento
• Departamento: Escola de Negócios
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Crescimento Econômico; Meio Ambiente; Progresso Técnico
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8739

This thesis presents three empirical essays on economic growth, environment and technical progress. The first uses Granger causality in panel data to explore the causal relationships between economic and environmental variables. The results show that the effects of scale and technique are the main propagating channels of the emission flow. The second chapter makes an empirical investigation of the Green Solow model using non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques. The results are consistent with the hypothesis of declining marginal productivity of capital, the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and the convergence in emissions of CO2. However, there is no evidence of EKC and convergence in emissions of N2O and CH4. The third essay investigates the hypothesis of induced environmental change by testing Granger causality between oil price and productivity in the United States between 1949 and 2015. The results support the hypothesis of technical change induced by energy cost.