Keynesian Range of Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve

The Impact of Aggregate Demand on Prices and Output

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The Keynesian range (the horizontal range) of a short-run aggregate supply curve illustrates that changes in aggregate demand exert little impact on prices and a great deal of impact on output when

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Below the full employment capacity of the economy, increases in aggregate supply have little effect on the price level. This is the result of the Keynesian assumption that at less than full employment output levels, prices and wages are fixed since they are inflexible in a downward direction.