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Causality: Some New Thoughts on an Old Topic

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  • Clive Granger

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Traditional "Granger-Causality" (henceforth just G-causality) concerned the conditional mean. It required that the causal variable Yt preceded the causal variable Xt+1 in time and also that Yt contained special information about Xt+1 which would be shown in the conditional mean E[Xt+1|Yt]. There is an immediate forecasting implication. Later, in terms of conditional distributions, Yt did not cause Xt=1 in distributions, if Yt was conditionally independent of Xt+1. Some new implications of this definition will be presented and the links between the distributions in mean and distribution explored. Since the appearance of these definitions a number of alternative forms have appeared, due to Hoover, Pearl, White, and others and they will be discussed and compared. There will be no conclusion

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  • Clive Granger, 2004. "Causality: Some New Thoughts on an Old Topic," Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings 351, Econometric Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecm:ausm04:351
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    Causality;

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    • C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods

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