NONE 20251205122503041 wseas/wseas content-registration-form+ja@crossref.org content-registration-form Financial Engineering 2945-1140 Irsida Dinoshi Finance and Accounting Department University College of Business Tirana, ALBANIA https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9199-2672 Enis Fita Management Department University College of Business Tirana, ALBANIA In a small open economy such as Albania, the exchange rate significantly influences various economic dimensions, including price levels, the balance of payments, productivity, the stock of foreign assets, and the attraction of foreign capital. This paper seeks to analyze exchange rate volatility within the framework of several macroeconomic determinants and their association with the real exchange rate (RER). Specifically, the study inspects exchange rate instability and its effects on macroeconomic variables that show statistically meaningful relationships with the RER. The analysis covers the period 2015–2024 and utilizes quarterly time series for each considered variable as independent and dependent measures. The examined macroeconomic variables include the real exchange rate, the relative productivity gap with trading partners, net foreign assets, trade openness, and government public spending. The Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) methodology is applied to assess how these key fundamentals shaped RER volatility over the sample. Empirical findings corroborate earlier results showing that the RER deviates from its equilibrium, and they identify the relative productivity gap and net foreign assets as the primary drivers of RER volatility. Both factors exert negative influences, implying that their expansion strengthens the domestic currency vis-à-vis foreign currencies. Moreover, RER volatility itself exerts a statistically significant effect on GDP and export volumes. 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