We provide an accessible introduction to graph-theoretic methods for causal analysis. Building on the work of Swanson and Granger ("Journal of the American Statistical Association", Vol. 92, pp. 357-367, 1997), and generalizing to a larger class of models, we show how to apply graph-theoretic...

We re-examine studies of cross-country growth regressions by Levine and Renelt ("American Economic Review", Vol. 82, 1992, pp. 942-963) and Sala-i-Martin ("American Economic Review", Vol. 87, 1997a, pp. 178-183; Economics Department, Columbia, University, 1997b). In a realistic Monte Carlo...

Graph-theoretic methods of causal search based on the ideas of Pearl (2000), Spirtes "et al". (2000), and others have been applied by a number of researchers to economic data, particularly by Swanson and Granger (1997) to the problem of finding a data-based contemporaneous causal order for the...