Macroeconomic Determinants of CO2 Emissions in Australia: Evidence From ARDL Bound Testing Approach

• Main Authors: Sherafatian-Jahromi, Reza, Othman, Mohd-Shahwahid Haji
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: CO2 emissions; economic activities; financial development; trade openness; ARDL Bound Testing
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol20/iss4/4; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1332/viewcontent/RA_203.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the macroeconomic determinants of CO2 emissions in Australia by applying the autoregressive distributed lag bound testing approach to cointegration. Findings reveal that CO2 emissions, energy consumption, financial development, and trade openness are cointegrated only when CO2 emissions are considered as the dependent variable. Under this situation, energy consumption and economic development lead to environmental degradation, whereas financial development improves the environment quality in Australia in the long run. The impact of trade openness on CO2 emissions is positive. However, this impact is lower than that of economic development and energy consumption. Moreover, bidirectional causality is found between CO2 emissions and economic development in the short run.