Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2022) 231: 1735-1739
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00378-5

Regular Article

Spatial partial causality

¹ CONICET-IELDE, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Jurídicas y Sociales, National University of Salta, Av. Bolivia 5150, CP., 4400, Salta, Argentina
² Departamento de Economía Aplicada y Estadística, Facultad de Económicas, UNED, Paseo Senda del Rey, 11, CP., 28040, Madrid, Spain
³ Department of Quantitative Methods, Law and Modern Languages, Technical University of Cartagena, 30201, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

^a mherreragomez@conicet.gov.ar

Received: 9 October 2021
Accepted: 7 December 2021
Published online: 20 December 2021

Abstract

This paper, on the one hand, proposes a statistical technique to detect potential causal relationships when the researcher has georeferenced data but not time dimension, and, on the other, applies this new methodology to the analysis of potential partial causal determinants of home prices. In particular, we find that the direction of causality for home prices in California goes from the income level to prices.