ISSN 2738-0971 | eISSN 2738-1013

Ljiljana Petrović

Department of mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

Articles

Open Access Original Scientific Paper

STATISTICAL CAUSALITY AND QUASIMARTINGALES

Concept of causality is very popular and applicable nowadays, especially when we consider the cases "what would happen if" and "what would have happened if". Here we consider the concept of causality based on the Granger’s definition of causality, introduced in Mykland (1986). Many of the systems to which it is natural to apply tests of causality take place in continuous time, so we will consider the continuous time processes. Here we consider the connection between the concept of causality and the property of being a quasimartingale. Quasimartingales were investigated by Fisk (1965), Orey and specially Rao (1969). Namely, in this paper we prove an equivalence between the given concept of causality and preservation of quasimartingale property if the filtration is getting larger. We prove the same equivalence for the stopped quasimartingale with respect to the truncated filtrations.

Open Access Original Scientific Paper

CONCEPT OF STATISTICAL CAUSALITY AND LOCAL MARTINGALES

In this paper we consider a statistical concept of causality in continuous time in filtered probability spaces which is based on Granger's definitions of causality. The given causality concept is closely connected to the preservation of the property being a local martingale if the filtration is getting larger. Namely, the local martingale remains unpredictable if the amount of information is increased. We proved that the preservation of this property is equivalent with the concept of causality.