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Do renewable energy and health expenditures improve load capacity factor in the USA and Japan? A new approach to environmental issues

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  • Ugur Korkut Pata

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This study performs the augmented autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to investigate the impact of renewable energy and health expenditures on the load capacity factor in Japan and the United States of America (USA) over the period 1982–2016. The load capacity factor is obtained by dividing the biocapacity into the ecological footprint and provides a general picture of environmental quality. Thus, the study departs from the current literature by approaching environmental problems from a broader perspective. The results of this study confirm the existence of cointegration in the USA and Japan. The long-run estimates demonstrate that renewable energy and health expenditures improve environmental quality in the USA, while renewable energy has a positive but insignificant impact on load capacity factor in Japan. It has also been determined economic growth causes significant environmental degradation, which cannot be compensated by renewables and health expenditures in both countries. According to these findings, Japanese and American governments should promote green growth, support the increase in health expenditures, and diversify renewable energy sources to reduce environmental pressure.

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  • Ugur Korkut Pata, 2021. "Do renewable energy and health expenditures improve load capacity factor in the USA and Japan? A new approach to environmental issues," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 22(9), pages 1427-1439, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujhec:v:22:y:2021:i:9:d:10.1007_s10198-021-01321-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s10198-021-01321-0
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    Keywords

    Augmented ARDL; Ecological footprint; Health expenditures; Load capacity factor; Renewable energy;
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    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • P46 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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