The export-led growth and growth-driven exports are two different views which has been a debate in literature for so long. On one hand the scholars like Michaely (1977), Feder (1982) support Export-led growth and on the other hand we have scholars like Bhagwati (1978), and Kunst & Marin (1989)...

This paper is an effort to examine the association between remittances and imports. The anticipated import function shows that worker’s remittances play a substantial role in the determination of imports in the economy. In this study the researchers used different econometric techniques in...

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...

The observed persistence common in economic time series may arise from a variety of models that are not always distinguished with confidence in practice, yet play an important role in model specification and second stage inference procedures. Previous literature has introduced causality tests...

The usual Wald test for the Granger non-causality in cointegrated vector autoregressive (VAR) processes is known to have the asymptotically non-standard distribution. There have been proposed a few alternative (inefficient) methods which give the asymptotically standard distribution. However,...

The concept of causality introduced by Wiener (1956) and Granger (1969) is defined in terms of predictability one period ahead. This concept can be generalized by considering causality at a given horizon h, and causality up to any given horizon h [Dufour and Renault (1998)]. This generalization...

Statistical tests in vector autoregressive (VAR) models are typically based on large-sample approximations, involving the use of asymptotic distributions or bootstrap techniques. After documenting that such methods can be very misleading even with fairly large samples, especially when the number...

Statistical tests in vector autoregressive (VAR) models are typically based on large-sample approximations, involving the use of asymptotic distributions or bootstrap techniques. After documenting that such methods can be very misleading even with fairly large samples, especially when the number...

We propose methods for testing hypothesis of non-causality at various horizons, as defined in Dufour and Renault (1998, Econometrica). We study in detail the case of VAR models and we propose linear methods based on running vector autoregressions at different horizons. While the hypotheses...

In general, Wald tests for the Granger non-causality in vector autoregressive (VAR) process are known to have non-standard asymptotic properties for cointegrated systems. However, that may have standard asymptotic properties depending on the rank of the submatrix of cointegration. In this paper,...