The impact of international trade on environmental quality in transition countries: evidence from time series data during 1991-2013.

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Munich Personal RePEc Archive

The impact of international trade on environmental quality in transition

countries: evidence from time series data during 1991-2013.

Halicioglu, Ferda and Ketenci, Natalya

Department of Economics, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Economics, Yeditepe University

2015

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71097/

MPRA Paper No. 71097, posted 05 May 2016 16:39 UTC

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Paper prepared for the 17th Annual Conference of ETSG, 10 12 September 2015, Paris France

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