Simultaneous Causality

question 38

Multiple Choice

Simultaneous causality

• A)means you must run a second regression of X on Y.
• B)leads to correlation between the regressor and the error term.
• C)means that a third variable affects both Y and X.
• D)cannot be established since regression analysis only detects correlation between variables.

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