“…However, in terms of traditional convergence with respect to taxation, few studies have been carried out (Blot & Serranito, 2006;Delgado, 2009;Esteve, Sosvilla-Rivero, & Tamarit, 2000;Gemmell & Kneller, 2003;Sosvilla, Galindo, & Alonso, 2001), and fewer still have applied unit root analysis (Delgado & Fern andez, 2006;Delgado & Presno, 2007;Esteve, Sosvilla-Rivero, & Tamarit, 1999). Among others, empirical analyses in the field of environmental taxation have been conducted by Abolhosseini, Heshmati, and Altmann (2014);Howarth (2006); and Galinato and Yoder (2010).…”