Decoding the Role of Corruption in Economic Freedom and CO 2 Emissions Nexus: A Disaggregated Analysis From BRICS and N‐11
研究了经济自由对总体、领土和消费二氧化碳排放的影响，以及腐败控制如何调节这种关系，基于金砖国家和N-11国家26年数据，发现经济自由增加总体排放但减少领土和消费排放，且腐败控制减弱了这种效应。
ABSTRACT The current study examines the effect of economic freedom on overall CO 2 emissions, territorial CO 2 emissions, consumption CO 2 emissions, and how the control of corruption moderates this relation. The study is based on a combined sample of BRICS and Next‐11 economies as well as on disaggregated analysis for the two blocks covering the period of 26 years (1995–2020). Employing a range of econometric techniques, including Driscoll and Kraay with fixed effects method, panel quantile regression, and panel threshold regressions, the study found a positive impact of economic freedom on overall CO 2 emissions and a negative impact on Territorial and Consumption‐based CO 2 emissions and this relationship remaining unchanged although coefficients reduced with the moderation of corruption control. The heterogeneous impact of economic freedom in low and high‐carbon emitting countries is being revealed, and a threshold effect of economic freedom, which depends on the income levels (GDP per capita), is also discovered. Towards the end, the study offers key stakeholders some policy recommendations and suggestions.