Korea University · Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Professor Uğur Korkut Pata's research lab specializes in environmental economics and sustainable development, focusing on the interplay between energy systems, environmental quality, and economic growth. The lab investigates the impacts of nuclear and renewable energy consumption, R&D expenditures, and financial development on key environmental indicators such as CO2 emissions, ecological footprint, and load capacity factor. A central theme is the empirical testing of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and load capacity curve (LCC) hypotheses across diverse countries and time periods. The lab employs advanced econometric methods, including ARDL, panel threshold, and Fourier-based models, to analyze long-term and nonlinear relationships in energy-environment-economy dynamics.
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This study investigates the impacts of nuclear energy consumption on environmental quality from a different perspective by focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, ecological footprint, and load capacity factor. In this context, the South Korea case, which is a leading country producing and consuming nuclear energy, is investigated by considering also economic growth, and the 1997 Asian crisis from 1977 to 2018. To this end, the study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach
This study analyzes the effect of renewable energy research & development (RRD) and nuclear energy research & development (NRD) expenditures on environmental quality by considering Germany’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality until 2045. Hence, the study uses various environmental indicators (carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, ecological footprint-EF, and load capacity factor-LCF) to investigate the effects of RRD and NRD on the environmental quality controlling also a gross domestic product (GDP)
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