Central Bank of Nigeria Library

Industrial concentration and inflation /

Lustgarten, Steven.

Industrial concentration and inflation / - Washington : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975. - 55 p. ;

Includes bibliographical references.

The book examines the claim that industry concentration is an important source of inflation. The author analyses the theory and the accumulated evidence that relate the fewness of sellers in certain manufacturing industries to the rate of economy-wide inflation, finding the theory subject to major criticism and the empirical evidence highly ambiguous.

0844731692


Inflation (Finance)
Industrial concentration

HG538 / .L87

332.41'0973 / LUS