Money, Credit and Spending: Drawing Causal Inferences

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Peter Howells

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, vol. 48, issue 5, 547-557

Abstract: It is widely accepted that loans cause deposits. Hitherto, though, the empirical evidence has come from bivariate causality tests which we now know can give rise to invalid inference if either of the two variables is causally influenced by some third, omitted, variable. In this paper we have used tests developed by Toda and Yamamoto to investigate the possibility that earlier inferences were incorrect because of the omission of a third relevant variable, total transactions in this particular case. Including the third variable requires us to revise some of the earlier inferences reported here, Howells and Hussein (1998). The most striking result, however, is that while deposits appear to be caused by total transactions (which could have invalidated the fundamental inference that loans cause deposits) our tests show that even in the presence of a third variable, the core of the endogeneity thesis prevails. Loans do cause deposits.

Date: 2001
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