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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2021.34.5.837

Invariant causal prediction for time series data: Application to won dollar exchange rate data  

Kim, Mijeong (Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.34, no.5, 2021 , pp. 837-848 More about this Journal
Abstract
Evaluating or predicting the effectiveness of economic policies is an important issue, but it is difficult to find an economic variable which causes a significant result because there are numerous variables that cannot be taken into account. A randomized controlled experiment is the best way to investigate causality, but it is not realistically possible to control through randomization and intervention in time series data such as macroeconomic data. Although some analysis methods have been proposed to find causality, the methods such as Granger causality method and Chow test are insufficient to explain causality. Recently, Pfister et al. (2019) proposed invariant causal prediction methods which can be applicable in time series data. In this paper, we introduce the method of Pfister et al. (2019) and use the method to find macroeconomic variables invariantly affecting the won-dollar exchange rate.
Keywords
causal prediction; Chow test; Granger causality; won-dollar exchange rate;
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