TY - JOUR AU - Mankiw,N. Gregory TI - Imperfect Competition and the Keynesian Cross JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 2386 PY - 1989 Y2 - February 1989 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2386 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2386.pdf N1 - Author contact info: N. Gregory Mankiw Department of Economics Littauer 223 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617/495-4301 Fax: 617/495-7730 E-Mail: ngmankiw@fas.harvard.edu AB - This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model in which the only non-Walrasian feature is imperfect competition in the goods market. The model is shown to exhibit various Keynesian characteristics. In particular, as competition in the goods market becomes less perfect, the fiscal policy multipliers approach the values implied by the textbook Keynesian cross. ER -