• Title of article

    Multipliers: imperfect competition or increasing returns to scale?

  • Author/Authors

    Antonio Fat?s، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    197
  • To page
    201
  • Abstract
    In a recent paper, Rotemberg and Woodford (1995) study the behavior of imperfectly competitive economies to conclude that imperfect competition magnifies the response of output to certain exogenous shocks. We show that their results are entirely driven by the presence of increasing returns to scale and not by imperfect competition.
  • Keywords
    Business cycles , Increasing returns to scale , Imperfect competition , multipliers
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434443