Nonlinear causality tests and multivariate conditional heteroskedasticity : a simulation study

Pavlidis, Efthymios and Paya, Ivan and Peel, David (2013) Nonlinear causality tests and multivariate conditional heteroskedasticity : a simulation study. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 17 (3). pp. 297-312. ISSN 1558-3708

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Abstract

This paper assesses the performance of linear and nonlinear causality tests in the presence of multivariate conditional heteroskedasticity, exogenous volatility regressors, and additive volatility outliers. Monte Carlo simulations show that tests based on the least squares covariance matrix estimator can frequently lead to finding spurious Granger causality. The degree of oversizing tends to increase with the sample size and is substantially larger for the nonlinear test. On the other hand, heteroskedasticity-robust tests which are based on the Fixed Design Wild Bootstrap perform adequately in terms of size and power. Consequently, reliable causality in mean tests can be conducted without the need to specify a conditional variance function. As an empirical application, we re-examine the return-volume relationship.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? causality multivariate archrobust inferenceadditive volatility outliersexogenous volatility regressorsmonte carlo simulationseconomics and econometricssocial sciences (miscellaneous)analysis ??
ID Code:
64620
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Deposited On:
20 May 2013 08:35
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Yes
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Published
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