Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149498 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 16-094/III
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
An early development in testing for causality (technically, Granger non-causality) in the conditional variance (or volatility) associated with financial returns, was the portmanteau statistic for non-causality in variance of Cheng and Ng (1996). A subsequent development was the Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test of non-causality in the conditional variance by Hafner and Herwartz (2006), who provided simulations results to show that their LM test was more powerful than the portmanteau statistic. While the LM test for causality proposed by Hafner and Herwartz (2006) is an interesting and useful development, it is nonetheless arbitrary. In particular, the specification on which the LM test is based does not rely on an underlying stochastic process, so that the alternative hypothesis is also arbitrary, which can affect the power of the test. The purpose of the paper is to derive a simple test for causality in volatility that provides regularity conditions arising from the underlying stochastic process, namely a random coefficient autoregressive process, and for which the (quasi-) maximum likelihood estimates have valid asymptotic properties. The simple test is intuitively appealing as it is based on an underlying stochastic process, is sympathetic to Granger’s (1969, 1988) notion of time series predictability, is easy to implement, and has a regularity condition that is not available in the LM test.
Subjects: 
Random coefficient stochastic process
Simple test
Granger non-causality
Regularity conditions
Asymptotic properties
Conditional volatility
JEL: 
C22
C32
C52
C58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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