This article uses alternative versions of the monetary approach to exchange rate determination to explain the Malaysian-ringgit-USD exchange rate during the recent past. The result shows that in general the estimated coefficients of money and income differentials are consistent with all variants...

Utilizing the standard linearity test of Luukkonen et al . (1988), the linear nature of all the Asian stock indices has been formally rejected. This finding warrants use of the nonlinear stationary test of Kapetanois et al . (2003), which is also constructed in the STAR framework, to investigate...

The present study adopts the framework of Lim et al. (2006) who conjectured that the existence of nonlinear serial dependencies is due to shocks that unsettled the market and caused large deviations from equilibrium. Specifically, this article extends the investigation to shed further light on...