Liao, XianchunDogan, EyupBaek, Jungho2025-09-252025-09-2520171864-6042https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-27https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12573/3650Baek, Jungho/0000-0002-5471-0935;This 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.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessChinaCorruptionEnvironmentEKCPanelSO2Article10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-272-s2.0-85032575335