IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v74y1992i1p146-53.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Testing for Granger's Full Causality

Author

Listed:
  • Covey, Ted
  • Bessler, David A

Abstract

A procedure is proposed to test for the existence of a fully causal relationship between two variables. The method involves contrasting the probabilistic forecasting performance of a univariate and bivariate specification for the same variable Y. If there exists some theory or belief that X causes Y, and the addition of a variable X to the information set of a prequential forecasting system for a variable Y reduces miscalibration and/or the level of forecast uncertainty with respect Y's distribution for the next period, then a fully causal effect running from X to Y may be inferred. Vector autoregression allows testing for feedback. The method is to be applied to the issue of causality between the live cattle futures market and a major slaughter cattle cash market. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.

Suggested Citation

  • Covey, Ted & Bessler, David A, 1992. "Testing for Granger's Full Causality," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 74(1), pages 146-153, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:74:y:1992:i:1:p:146-53
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6535%28199202%2974%3A1%3C146%3ATFGFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F&origin=bc
    File Function: full text
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to JSTOR subscribers. See http://www.jstor.org for details.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Philipp Adämmer & Martin T. Bohl, 2015. "Price Discovery in European Agricultural Markets: When Do Futures Contracts Matter?," CQE Working Papers 4415, Center for Quantitative Economics (CQE), University of Muenster.
    2. David Bessler & Robert Ruffley, 2004. "Prequential analysis of stock market returns," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(5), pages 399-412.
    3. Se Kyu Choi-Ha & Luis Felipe Lagos, 2003. "El Dinero como Indicador Líder," Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 40(120), pages 259-283.
    4. Choudhry, Taufiq, 2009. "Short-run deviations and time-varying hedge ratios: Evidence from agricultural futures markets," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 18(1-2), pages 58-65, March.
    5. Philipp Adämmer & Martin T. Bohl, 2018. "Price discovery dynamics in European agricultural markets," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(5), pages 549-562, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:74:y:1992:i:1:p:146-53. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kelly McDougall (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://direct.mit.edu/journals .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.