Granger causality tests are widely used in applied economics as a way of establishing if a variable has been a leading indicator of another over the past. However, like most statistical tests, Granger causality tests require that the relationship between the variables remains stable over the...

In economic development, structural change among the three main sectors of an economy accompanies with aggregate economic growth. Nevertheless the question whether economic growth causes structural change or change in the economic structure causes aggregate growth is still unanswered. To shed...