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Working Paper

Increasing Returns to Scale and the Long-Run Phillips Curve

Authors

  • Snower
  • D.J.
  • Vaona
  • A.

Publication Date

JEL Classification

E3 E20 E40 E50

Key Words

Increasing returns

Inflation

monetary policy

Nominal inertia

Phillips curve

Phillips-Kurve

A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real macroeconomic activity. Within a New Keynesian framewok, we examine how increasing returns generate a positive long-run relation between inflation and output.

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  • Prof. Dennis J. Snower, Ph.D.
    President Emeritus

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