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                                                                                    Discussion Paper
                                                                                
                                            M2 per unit of potential GNP as an anchor for the price level
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Journal Article
                                                                                
                                            Commodity prices and P-star
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                    
                                                                                                    An illustration of how the P-star indicator of future inflation can be modified to include information about the recent behavior of commodity prices. This approach yields more accurate short-run inflation forecasts while still retaining the property that, over the long run, only money matters.
                                                                                                
                                            
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Journal Article
                                                                                
                                            Integrating business and personal income taxes
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                    
                                                                                                    An examination of the problems surrounding the current corporate tax system, including a detailed look at several reform proposals from the Treasury Department.
                                                                                                
                                            
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Journal Article
                                                                                
                                            Uncertain inflation and price-level rules
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                    
                                                                                                    An analysis of the sources and costs of unpredictable inflation, finding that the uncertainty stems from a lack of appropriate constraints on the monetary policy process, and that the costs could be sharply reduced by adopting a policy that targets a long-run path for the price level.
                                                                                                
                                            
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Working Paper
                                                                                
                                            Cointegration and transformed series
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                    
                                                                                                    An explanation of how to use nonparametric techniques to search for and test possible cointegrating transformations of time series.
                                                                                                
                                            
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Journal Article
                                                                                
                                            Has the long-run velocity of M2 shifted? Evidence from the P* model
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                                                                    
                                                                                                    An examination of one of the P-Star model's primary assumptions: the constancy of M2's long-run velocity, or V-Star. Using actual data through the end of 1992, the authors find that simulations of the model under a variety of hypotheses regarding changes in V-Star provide little support for a dramatic shift in that measure.
                                                                                                
                                            
                                                                                
                                    
                                                                                    Working Paper
                                                                                
                                            The algebra of I (1)