In this paper, an unrestricted cointegrating VAR is employed to test the dynamic implications of three competing explanations of the negative stock return-inflation relationship. Test results are provided which make use of recent advances in testing for Granger-causality. One implication is that...

Tests based on normalized autocorrelation coefficients have been commonly used by applied researchers to examine the randomness of economic and financial time series. This paper investigates via Monte Carlo simulation the finite-sample properties of these tests for randomness, paying special...