White, Halbert; Xu, Haiqing; Chalak, Karim - In: Journal of Econometrics 182 (2014) 1, pp. 45-58
Notions of cause and effect are fundamental to economic explanation. Although concepts such as price effects are intuitive, rigorous foundations justifying causal discourse in the wide range of economic settings remain lacking. We illustrate this deficiency using an N-bidder private-value...