Dynamic association between ICT, renewable energy, economic complexity and ecological footprint: Is there any difference between E-7 (developing) and G-7 (developed) countries?

dc.authoridHuang, Yongming/0000-0003-0033-9277
dc.authorid, Mohammad Haseeb/0000-0001-6229-8242
dc.authoridUsman, Muhammad/0000-0002-6131-2118
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Yongming
dc.contributor.authorHaseeb, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorUsman, Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Ilhan
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-07T20:14:29Z
dc.date.available2025-03-07T20:14:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentÇağ Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis empirical research scrutinizes the nexus between information and communication technologies (ICT), renewable energy, economic complexity, human capital, financial development, and ecological footprint for E-7 and G-7 countries over the period from 1995 to 2018. We use four variables (Mobile cellular subscription, fixed broadband subscription, fixed telephone subscription, Internet consumers) for the ICT index prepared through principal component analysis. For empirical analysis, after testing the cross-sectional dependency, this study performs the second-generation method. From the E-7 countries' perspective, the empirical results reveal that ICT, economic complexity, and human capital increase the pollution level while renewable energy significantly reduces it. The estimated financial development coefficient is established to be statistically insignificant. In G-7 countries, all potential factors significantly improve the environmental quality except financial development. Moreover, the interaction between ICT and human capital significantly reduces the ecological footprint level in both panel countries. Therefore, we can observe that there is a wide discrepancy in these countries. The only common thing is that in these countries, bidirectional causality is discovered between ICT, human capital, and ecological footprint. Based on these empirical findings, several practice policy implications for ICT, renewable energy, economic complexity, human capital, financial development, and ecological footprint are discussed.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Social Science Foundation Project of China [21BJL008]
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is supported by the National Social Science Foundation Project of China (No. 21BJL008).
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101853
dc.identifier.issn0160-791X
dc.identifier.issn1879-3274
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85122451927
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101853
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12507/2923
dc.identifier.volume68
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000820489800002
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Sci Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofTechnology in Society
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20241226
dc.subjectICT
dc.subjectRenewable energy
dc.subjectEconomic complexity
dc.subjectHuman capital
dc.subjectE-7 and G-7 countries
dc.titleDynamic association between ICT, renewable energy, economic complexity and ecological footprint: Is there any difference between E-7 (developing) and G-7 (developed) countries?
dc.typeArticle

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