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Introduction to the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

By Andreas Hornstein
Economic Quarterly
Fall 2008

In most industrialized economies inflation tends to be pro-cyclical; that is, inflation is high during times of high economic activity. When economic activity is measured by the unemployment rate this statistical relationship is known as the Phillips curve.

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