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Historical U.S. Money Growth, Inflation, and Inflation Credibility - Review

William G. Dewald, the retiring Research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, focuses on the longer-term monetary relationships in historical data. He uses charts of 10-year average growth rates in the M2 monetary aggregate, nominal GDP, real GDP, and inflation to show that there is a consistent longer-term correlation between M2 growth, nominal GDP growth, and inflation—but not between such nominal variables and real GDP growth.

research.stlouisfed.org/.../11/01/historical-u-s-money-growth-inflation-and-inflation-credibility

Replication and Scientific Standards in Applied Economics A Decade After the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Project - Review

Since early 1993, the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has made data and programs for articles published in its Review available to the public. The files, developed during a pre-publication replication that assures the accuracy of an article’s empirical results, allow the interested reader to delve into the details of the author’s research. 

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Inflation, Real Interest Tax Wedges, and Capital Formation - Review

William D. Dewald, director of research for the St. Louis Fed, examines how inflation magnifies the distorting effects of taxation when the tax treatment of interest income and expense is not fully indexed to inflation.

research.stlouisfed.org/.../1998/01/01/inflation-real-interest-tax-wedges-and-capital-formation

Monetarism is Dead; Long Live the Quantity Theory - Review

William G. Dewald distinguishes between simplistic monetarism, which he believes “was widely interpreted as providing an alternative to short-run Keynesian model forecasts” and “the Quantity Theory, whose focus is on the long run.”

research.stlouisfed.org/.../review/1988/07/01/monetarism-is-dead-long-live-the-quantity-theory/