The impact of financial development on carbon dioxide emissions in Jamaica.

We determine the possible impacts of changes in financial development on carbon dioxide (CO) emissions in Jamaica for the period 1980 to 2018, with special attention given to the possible existence of asymmetries in this relationship. There are three major findings. First, there is a unique cointegrating relationship among the variables where CO emissions are a function of financial development, real domestic economic activity, and trade openness.