Economic Analysis of Driving Forces of Environmental Burden during the Transition Process: EKC hypothesis testing in the Czech Republic.
Abstract
This paper aims at a quantitative assessment of main possible driving forces of the changes in the environmental burden in the Czech Republic during the transition. Firstly, we provide a brief qualitative assessment of air pollution caused by entire economy, sectors and households, of the Czech economy performance including its structural change, of energy consumption and main regulative changes possible affected the emission level.
Secondly, we do quantitative exercise in order to explain changes in emission levels. We decompose the change on three effects: effect of change in the scale of economic performance, of change in economic structure, and of environmental intensity.
We find that environmental investments in this sector mattered only for a part of emissions, and for those with a limited impact only.