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Article Citation - WoS: 450Citation - Scopus: 485The Impact of Economic Structure to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Hypothesis: Evidence from European Countries(Springer Heidelberg, 2020-02-01) Dogan, Eyup; Inglesi-Lotz, RoulaThe purpose of this study is to examine the role of economic structure of European countries into testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for European countries for the period 1980 to 2014. This study is inspired by the work of Lin et al. (J Clean Prod 133:712-724, 2016), which made the first effort to investigate the phenomenon looking only at African countries. The main finding of the study is that the overall economic growth is the factor with which CO2 emissions exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship in the studied country group. On the contrary, when using their industrial share as a proxy to capture the countries' economic structure, the EKC hypothesis is not confirmed - but a U-shaped relationship is confirmed. The industrial share decreases emissions through the development and absorption of technologies that are energy efficient and environmental friendly. The EKC hypothesis is confirmed when the aggregate GDP growth is considered, taking into account the improvement of the overall economic conditions of the countries regardless of the economic structure and role of industrialization.Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 20Does Corruption Matter for the Environment? Panel Evidence from China(De Gruyter Poland Sp. z o.o., 2017-10-02) Liao, Xianchun; Dogan, Eyup; Baek, JunghoThis article examines the income-energy-SO2 emissions nexus by taking a corruption variable into account. To that end, the panel cointegration methods are applied to 29 Chinese provinces over 1999-2012. The authors 'empirical evidence shows that an increase in the number of anti-corruption cases tends to drive down SO2 emissions in China. It is also found that income growth appears to have a beneficial effect on decreasing SO2 emissions over the past two decades. Finally, energy consumption is found to increase SO2 emissions.