Environmental Quality, Corruption and Industry Growth: The Global Perspective

This paper investigates the causal relationship between environmental quality and corruption for 129 countries, using panel cointegration panel-based error correction models period 2002-2015. In paper, we use EPI, EHI, EVI to represent quality, which are more reasonable comprehensive. We further take industry growth into consideration investigate its impact on quality. Our results corroborate that there exists a long-term equilibrium cointegrated among variables, both of have negative effect can seriously decrease in long term, while weakens no matter short or run.