Author(s)

Cem Canel^1*, Selahattin Güriş², Recep Öktem³, Burak Güriş⁴, Begüm Öktem⁵, Yaşar Serhat Yaşgül², Muhammed Tıraşoğlu⁶

¹Congdon School of Supply Chain, Business Analytics and Information Systems, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA.
²Department of Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
³Department of Accounting and Finance, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴Department of Econometrics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁵Department of Accounting and Tax Implications, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁶Department of Econometrics, Kirklareli University, Kirklareli, Turkey.

Global warming has become one of the most critical factors affecting the world, especially in the last decade. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyze the impact of global warming and take measures. The main factor leading to global warming is considered to be people’s consumption and production behaviors. The primary indicator of this is greenhouse gases. Relevant policy changes need to be made to control greenhouse gases. In this context, it is necessary to determine the differences in greenhouse gas emissions at the national level. To identify these differences, this study applies the convergence hypothesis, which has been the subject of numerous researchers since the 1980s. In this study, we analyzed the greenhouse gas intensity convergence for countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) using linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests. The results of this study show that the greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD countries do not converge to the OECD average.

Greenhouse Gas, Convergence Analysis, Linear Panel Unit Root Tests, Nonlinear Panel Unit Root Tests

Canel, C. , Güriş, S. , Öktem, R. , Güriş, B. , Öktem, B. , Yaşgül, Y. and Tıraşoğlu, M. (2020) An Examination of Greenhouse Gas Convergence in OECD Countries. Modern Economy, 11, 79-88. doi: 10.4236/me.2020.111008.