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This paper reexamines the choice of the scale variable in the money-demand function. A variety of evidence suggests that consumer spending is a better scale variable than GNP. Changing the money- demand specification along these lines can profoundly affect the standard Keynesian analysis of a tax cut.
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Mankiw et al. (1986) studied this question.
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