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Long-run Phillips curve (LRPC)

A vertical line at the natural rate of unemployment. Once expectations have caught up with actual inflation, there is no trade-off left: any inflation rate is possible, but unemployment always returns to its natural rate.

Also called: LRPC, vertical Phillips curve

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