“…monopolistic competition, Calvo pricing, no strategic interactions), the Phillips curve steepens with higher markups. This implies that the sacrifice ratio falls, the cost of high inflation lower, which may lead to a different optimal rule, allowing for more absorption through inflation than output gap (Aquilante et al, 2019). Similarly, the level of the markup, in so far as it impacts investment growth would also affect r * , the equilibrium interest rate.…”