A New Test of Money-Income Causality

Abstract

This paper investigates the prima facie causal relationship between money and income employing a methodology--the multiple rank F test--the results of which are invariant to monotonic transformations of all variables and robust over alternative distributions of the errors. In contrast to prior functional-form dependent parametric analyses, evidence of prima facie causality between money and income is found for the 1970-88 time period. This evidence is consistent with an elementary theoretical framework in which the direction and strength of causality is dependent upon the definition of money. Copyright 1992 by Ohio State University Press.