An article co-authored by PhD. in Economics Shahriyar Mukhtarov, head of World Economy Department at BEU, has been published in “Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy” journal (2nd issue of 2020, 15 th edition). 

The article entitled “Environmental consequences of tourim: do oil-exporting countries import more CO2 emissions?” analyzed the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve(EKC) hypothesis on the example of Azerbaijani economy and the impact of tourism activities on CO2 emissions through FMOLS method by using statistical data for 1995-2013. According to the results of the article, it was revealed that tourism activities in Azerbaijan polluted the environment and the Kuznets Curve of the Environment(EKC) hypothesis did not exist. Based on the results of the study, a number of proposals were made to reduce the negative impact of tourism activities on the environment.

The article is available at  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15567249.2020.1753856 .

It should be noted that this is the 5th article by Sh. Mukhtarov published in 2020 in journals indexed in such authoritative databases as Web of Science and Scopus.

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