Behnaz Saboori

• PhD
• Assisstant professor at Sultan Qaboos University

Purpose The increasing use of fossil fuels and energy security concerns have led to a growing emphasis on sustainable economic growth and transitioning to a green energy system. This study aims to examine the relationship between energy diversification and economic growth in Central Asian Republics (CAR), Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and South As...

In this paper, a complex interplay is demonstrated, indicating that the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) and patent protection varies in certain trade contexts. We review the IPR and patent laws in Oman and subsequent amendments following the signing of free trade agreements and investigate how strong protection of patents and IPRs affe...

Combating climate change and reducing CO2 emissions are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals within a sustainable development framework. Various factors, such as institutional quality, affect environmental quality, and quantifying this linkage can lead to appropriate policy-making aimed at reducing pollution. The present study...

This paper aims to investigate how economic complexity and structural transformation affect energy security. This study differs from previous research by focusing on energy efficiency and renewable energy transition as indicators of energy security. The employed methods include econometric techniques such as Panel-Corrected Standard Errors, Driscol...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various challenges to food security were faced by nations around the globe. Many studies were conducted to understand the pandemic’s impact on food security. However, no studies were found to review the literature on the impact of COVID-19 on food security in countries with different income levels. Thus, this chapter a...

This paper is the first comprehensive research to examine the effect of circular economy on environment employing two environmental degradation indicators (CO2 emissions, ecological footprint) and one environmental quality indicator (load capacity factor) for 57 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries during 2000–2019. The effect of other variable...

This research employed an extended Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) modelling providing original empirical evidence on how technological innovation with the presence of green finance, energy transition vectoring renewable and non‐renewable energy, population, affluence, and financial development aff...

An outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was experienced all around the world. Identifying the spatial prevalence of this disease can lead to more effective management and control of this outbreak. Thus, the main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the spatial effects of COVID-19 from early June 2020 to mid-August 2020, in Australia. For...

The ecological footprint is unable to separate stock capital from flow capital and measures only natural capital. In this study, the three-dimensional ecological footprint was measured for the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). For the first time, the three-dimensional ecological footprint (EF3-D) and economic complexity nexus were examined in...

The climate crisis is a critical global issue that demands immediate and collective action from all stakeholders. Researchers are trying to find out the factors that cause the climate crisis and how they can be prevented. This research focuses on identifying the sources of carbon emissions, especially for countries with increasing emissions, which...

This study investigates the causality from Tourism Market Diversification (TMD) to entrepreneurial ecosystem and its sub-indexes (attitudes, abilities, and aspirations), across four sub-groups including high-rank, upper-middle-rank, middle-rank, and low-rank countries over the period 2006–2018. Employing the system-Generalized Method of Moments (sy...

This research analyzed the effect of tourism market diversification on Singapore’s CO2 emissions by measuring the level of concentration of source countries in a foreign tourist basket of Singapore using a Herfindahl–Hirschman index. Our results indicated that the index fell over the period 1978–2020, which means the diversification of source count...

Due to its significance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), food security has gained considerable attention from governments and policymakers worldwide. Since agricultural production primarily contributes to food security success, efforts have been directed toward it. Consequently, this study aims to examine the effects of agricu...

In this study, the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) was tested for the first time in the agriculture sector of ten rice-producing countries namely China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Japan, the Philippines, and Brazil, using panel data from 1995 to 2018. Once the EKC was tested at the aggregate level, the results were...

This paper employed advanced panel methods to examine the effects of international tourist arrivals on CO2 emissions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the period of 1995–2018. To analyze the predictive power of tourist arrivals for CO2 emissions, the panel Granger non-causality test was employed. Employing the common correlated...

The tourism industry is well-known as a powerful driver of the economic growth of destinations. However, socio-political and financial fluctuations in the countries of origin and destination make the tourism industry more volatile and less beneficial to economic growth. The tourism market diversification (TMD) strategy supports the stabilizing of t...

In this study for the first time, we examined the effect of tourism market diversification (TMD) on economic growth for 109 countries categorized by income groups. Employing Quantile regression, the results revealed that TMD contributes to the economic growth of low- and lower-middle-income countries only at the lower, and lower-to-intermediate qua...

This study evaluates the effect of renewable, non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth on unemployment rate across 51 US states over the period 1977–2017. We applied a fixed effect model and a Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations (SURE) model, which allows for an unknown form of cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity. Wh...

COVID-19 has impacted the world economy and food system in many aspects. We conducted a comprehensive examination of global food security during the COVID-19 pandemic by considering the food security index and its four key pillars (affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience) for 102 countries. In addition...

The G7 countries consist of some of the world's most developed nations which have economically flourished over the years. However, alongside such robust economic performances, the environmental qualities in these countries have rather aggravated to raise deep concerns among the stakeholders. Hence, this study is designed to empirically examine the...

This study examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis by estimating the relationship between economic structure and economic complexity with the environmental pollution in OECD countries during 1971–2016. In that respect, this research investigates how various economic sectors affect environmental pollution differently. The results confirm...

Export diversification's role in reducing environmental degradation, especially in oil-dependent countries, has been overlooked. This study investigated the effect of export diversification, along with energy consumption and economic growth as important control variables, on CO2 emissions and ecological footprint in Oman from 1984 to 2014 by employ...

For the first time in the tourism and environment literature, this study investigates the CO 2 emissions effect of the market diversification of tourist arrivals. Theoretically, tourism market diversification has two opposite potential effects on CO 2 emissions, depending on its scale and composition effect. It may increase CO 2 emissions by expand...

This study investigates the role of the import diversification in the renewable energy consumption for a global panel of both developing and developed economies. The study applies panel co-integration and panel quantile regression analysis on the panel data of 138 countries during 1995-2018. For empirical analysis, the authors used Pedroni cointegr...

Dear All; I am serving as a guest editor in #MPDI #Sustainability with Prof. Behnaz Saboori in a special issue. This Special Issue will expand our knowledge of the relationship between the #environment and different social and economic indicators (economic complexity, product #complexity, sophistication, and concentration) so that we can make more...

Global warming is a serious problem facing the world today. To minimize it, scholars are trying to find the reasons behind increasing CO2 emissions. This study examines the effects of overall export product diversification, extensive margin, and intensive margin on CO2 emissions as indicators of environmental degradation in 84 developing countries...

This study is among the first attempts to examine the effect of economic complexity as an indicator of sophisticated and knowledge-based production structures on CO 2 emissions for 55 countries over the period of 1971-2014. The countries considered fall into three different income groups, namely high income, higher middle income, and lower middle i...

This article investigates the long-run and causal linkages between economic growth, CO2 emissions, renewable and non-renewable (fossil fuels) energy consumption, the Composite Trade Intensity (CTI) as a proxy for trade openness, and the Chinn-Ito index as a proxy for financial openness for a panel of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) reg...

This empirical study examines the short- and long-run relationship between GDP as an economic growth indicator and CO2 emissions as an environmental pollution indicator in Myanmar by using annual time series data over the period of 1970-2014. It also carefully considered other proxies, such as trade openness, financial openness and urbanization, an...

This article attempts to explore the nexus between oil consumption, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in three East Asian oil importing countries (i.e. China, South Korea and Japan) over the period 1980–2013, by using the Granger causality, Johansen cointegration test, Generalised Impulse Response functions (GIRF) and variance deco...

CO2 emissions and climate change is one of the most crucial threats facing the world today. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including a group of countries with a high growth of fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, has considered some policies to reduce these threats. One of the most important policies is creating and empowerin...

This study examines the long- and short-run relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, economic growth, energy consumption, foreign trade, and urbanization based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Malaysia for the period 1980–2008. This study employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methodology for empirical a...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between security and international tourist arrivals. The system Generalized Method of Moments technique is applied in two panels of 29 developed and 45 developing countries over the period 2006–2012. Employing social, economic and political security indexes beside other control variables, the results...

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 181 countries. We propose a new approach based on the cross-correlation estimates to understand how economic growth and CO2 emissions are related. Our proposal is that if there is a positive cross-correlation between the current lev...

The main objective of this study is to examine the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis by utilizing the ecological footprint as an environment indicator and GDP from tourism as the economic indicator. To achieve this goal, an environmental degradation model is established during the period of 1988-2008 for 144 countries. The results from t...

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 181 countries. We propose a new approach based on the cross-correlation estimates to understand how economic growth and CO2 emissions are related. Our proposal is that if there is a positive cross-correlation between the current lev...

This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in 10 of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). To realize the study’s aims a time series model is built based on the period 1977-2008, utilizing the ecological footprint as an environmental indicator and income, labour, capital, oil consumption and oil pric...

This paper explores the bi-directional long-run relationship between energy consumption in the road transport sector with CO2 emissions and economic growth in OECD countries. Using time series data from 1960 to 2008 and employing the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares cointegration approach, the paper shows positive significant long-run bi-direc...

This study examines the dynamic relationship between CO 2 emissions and economic growth in Malaysia for the period of 1980-2004. The evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is tested by including energy consumption, dirty export from Malaysia to China and dirty import from China to Malaysia based on the two and three-digit ISIC data which...

This study examines the potential of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in reducing the impact of carbon emission in Malaysia and the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, which leads to global warming. Using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, this study analyses the impact of electricity generated using RES on the environment and trade openne...

This study examines the dynamic relationship among carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, economic growth, energy consumption and foreign trade based on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in Indonesia for the period 1971–2007, using the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methodology. The results do not support the EKC hypothesis, which a...

To investigate the response of real depreciation of ringgit on trade balance of Malaysia, researchers either employed trade data between Malaysia and the rest of the world or between Malaysia and each of her trading partners. Nevertheless, these studies did not provide a conclusive evidence of the effects of currency depreciation on the trade balan...

This study examines the dynamic relationship among carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, economic growth, energy consumption and foreign trade based on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Indonesia during the period 1971–2007. The Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodology is used as an estimation technique. The results do not s...