Table 1 Summary of the literature on PCI.

From: The effect of productive capacity changes, income, and clean energy on ecological sustainability in China by novel KRLS approach

Panel

Author

Sample countries

Period

PCI indicator

Approach

Outcome

Panel A:

Energy

Bhattacharya et al.23

85 developed and developing

1991–2012

REC

GMM, FMOLS

REC ↓ CO2

Akram et al.44

66 developing

1990–2014

REC

FE, PQR

REC ↓ CO2

Saidi and Omri49

15 OECD

1990–2018

REC

VECM

REC ↓ CO2

Hasanov et al.45

BRICS

1990–2017

REC

CS-ARDL

REC ↓ CO2

Khan et al.6

BRICS

1990–2019

REC

GLS, PCSE

REC ↓ CO2

Hasanov et al.47

20 RECAI

1990–2018

REC

AMG, CCEMG

REC ↓ CO2

Mukhtarov7

Türkiye

1990–2019

REC

ARDL

REC ↓ CO2

Mukhtarov et al.50

Canada

1996–2021

REC

FMOLS

REC ↓ CO2

Panel B:

Human capital

Khan et al.51

7 OECD

1990–2018

Human Capital

CS-ARDL

HC ↓ CO2

Isiksal et al.52

Central Asian

1995–2018

Human Capital

PMG

HC ↓ CO2

Panel C:

ICT

Zhang and Liu22

China

2000–2010

ICT

FGLS

ICT ↓ CO2

Danish et al.43

N-11 countries

1990–2015

ICT

AMG

ICT ↓ CO2

Haseeb et al.53

BRICS

1994–2014

ICT

DSUR

ICT ↑ CO2

Raheem et al.25

G7

1990–2014

ICT

PMG

ICT ↑ CO2

Khan et al.6

BRICS

1990–2019

ICT

GLS, PCSE

ICT ↓ CO2

Li et al.54

BRI

2007–2015

ICT

GMM

ICT ↑ CO2

Panel D:

Institutions

Ahmed and Wang55

Pakistan

1996–2018

IQ

ARDL

IQ ↓ CO2

Ali et al.56

47 developing

2004–2010

IQ

GMM

IQ ↓ CO2

Khan et al.57

188

2002–2018

IQ

GMM

IQ ↓ CO2

Obobisa et al.58

25 African

2000–2018

IQ

CCEMG, AMG

IQ ↑ CO2

Mukhtarov et al.50

Canada

1996–2021

IQ

FMOLS

IQ ↓ CO2

Panel E:

Structural change

Adebayo et al.13

Türkiye

1965–2019

Structural Change

NARDL

SC ↓ CO2

Panel F:

Transport

Ben Jebli and Hadhri24

Top 10 international tourism

1995–2013

Transportation

FMOLS, DOLS

TS ↓ CO2

Khan et al.59

Asian developing

2001–2017

Transportation

FMOLS, DOLS

TR ↑ CO2

Godil et al.60

USA

2000/1-2019/8

Transportation

QARDL

TS ↓ CO2

Sharif et al.61

Malaysia

1995–2018

Transportation

QARDL

TR ↑ CO2

Panel G:

Aggregated PCI

Lin et al.14

40 developing BRI host

2000–2018

PCI

GMM, FGLS

PCI ↓ CO2

Oluc et al.15

38 OECD

2000–2018

PCI

PMG-ARDL

PCI ↓ CO2

  1. AMG: Augmented Mean Group; ARDL: Autoregressive Distributed Lag; BRI: Belt and Road Initiative; CCEMG: Common Correlated Mean Group; CS-ARDL: Cross-Sectional ARDL: DOLS: Dynamic OLS; DSUR: Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Regression; FE: Fixed Effect; FGLS: Feasible Generalized Least Squares; FMOLS: Fully Modified OLS; GLS: Generalized Least Squares; GMM: Generalized Method of Moments; IQ: Institutional Quality; NARDL: Nonlinear ARDL; PCSE: Panel Corrected Standard Errors; PMG: Pooled Mean Group; PQR: Panel Quantile Regression; QARDL: Quantile ARDL; REC: Renewable Energy Consumption; VECM: Vector Error Correction Model. ↑: Stimulating Effect; ↓: Reducing Effect; = Causality; ≠: No Causality.