The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world. Yet conventional macroeconomic approaches do not explain why people trade foreign exchange. At the same time, they fail to explain the short-run determinants of the exchange rate. These nine innovative...

This paper investigates the behaviour of stock prices in Italy over the 1963-1995 period. By means of a time-series analysis of both the long- and the short-run properties of stock prices and other macroeconomic variables, we find strong evidence of a long-run equilibrium negative relation...