It is common to conduct bootstrap inference in vector autoregressive (VAR) models based on the assumption that the underlying data‐generating process is of finite‐lag order. This assumption is implausible in practice. We establish the asymptotic validity of the residual‐based bootstrap...

The existence of linkages between the agricultural sector and the rest of the economy points to the specificity of that sector and justifies why we can conceive of a macroeconomics of agriculture . The primary sector is characterized by product homogeneity, a pre-condition for the absence of...

Graph-theoretic methods of causal search based in the ideas of Pearl (2000), Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (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...