Does Agriculture Matter for Environmental Kuznets Curve in Russia: Evidence from the ARDL Bounds Tests Approach

Dmitry Burakov

DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110303.
No 3/2019, September
pp. 23-34

Burakov, D. (2019) “Does Agriculture Matter for Environmental Kuznets Curve in Russia: Evidence from the ARDL Bounds Tests Approach", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 23-34. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110303..

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and their main determinants, which include real income and energy consumption in Russia, employing data for the period 1990-2016. The hypothesis of agriculture being an important determinant of environmental quality in Russia is also tested. For estimating the short-run and long-run relationships the ARDL bounds test approach is employed in this study. The results are consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis and show that the real income and energy consumption have a statistically significant positive impact on the carbon emission and its square has a significant negative effect on the carbon emissions both in the short-run and long-run. Agricultural sector is found to be a relatively important statistically significant determinant of carbon emission in Russia as well. The pairwise Granger causality test also reveals unidirectional causality running from agriculture to the carbon emissions.

Keywords

Environmental Kuznets curve, agriculture, economic growth, CO2 emission.

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