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Nur Zaimah Ubaidillah

2012-07-01

Full Text Available In the present paper, an attempt is made to examine the nexus between themacroeconomic variables and the CO2emissions from road transport sector inMalaysia. Using vector error correction model during 1980 to 2009 period, theempiricalresults show that there is an evidence of a long-run relationship amongthe variables. The findings of this research also indicate that a bi-directionalrelationship exist between the number of vehicles and CO2emission in the short-run.