Testing for Granger Causality with Mixed Frequency Data

Eric Ghysels, Jonathan B. Hill and Kaiji Motegi

No 9655, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: It is well known that temporal aggregation has adverse effects on Granger causality tests. Time series are often sampled at different frequencies. This is typically ignored, and data are merely aggregated to the common lowest frequency. We develop a set of Granger causality tests that explicitly take advantage of data sampled at different frequencies. We show that taking advantage of mixed frequency data allows us to better recover causal relationships when compared to the conventional common low frequency approach. We also show that the mixed frequency causality tests have higher local asymptotic power as well as more power in finite samples compared to conventional tests.

Keywords: Granger causality; Mixed data sampling (midas); Temporal aggression; Vector autoregression (var) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
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