TY - JOUR AU - Sadikov, Avazbek AU - Kasimova, Nargiza AU - Isaeva, Arletta AU - Khachaturov, Anastas AU - Salahodjaev, Raufhon PY - 2020/10/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Pollution, Energy and Growth: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries JF - International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy JA - IJEEP VL - 10 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/9637 SP - 656-661 AB - <p>This paper investigates the empirical relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth and energy use in post-communistic countries during 1990-2018. Pedroni's (1999) panel cointegration test discovered cointegrating relationship between the variables. To distinguish short- and long-term effect, as well as to account for homogeneity caused by previous common socio-political system and current country specific characteristics, Pesaran's (1999) Pooled Mean Group estimator is employed. PMG estimates identified short- and long-term relationship between energy use and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and short-term relationship between CO<sub>2 </sub>emissions and economic growth.  Finally, the Dumitrescu and Hurlin's (2012) Granger non-causality test for heterogeneous panels revealed bidirectional causality between CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, energy use and economic growth. </p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, economic growth, energy consumption, post-communistic countries.</p><p><strong>JEL Classifications: </strong>C23, P18, O47</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.9637">https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.9637</a></p> ER -