Testing instantaneous linear Granger causality in presence of nonlinear dynamics

This Note is devoted to the test of instantaneous linear Granger causality when the errors are dependent but uncorrelated. The assumptions are weak and include a large set of dynamics as for instance the GARCH processes. We show that the standard Wald test for testing instantaneous linear Granger causality is not valid in our framework. As a consequence Wald tests which are valid in our framework are proposed.