ECN 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deflation, Economic Equilibrium, Aggregate Supply

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12. 6- describe how the ad-as model explains periods of demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, and recession. Aggregate demand is a schedule or curve that shows the amounts of real output (real. Gdp) that buyers collectively desire to purchase at each possible price level. Slopes downward because of the following effects of a change in price level: real-balances effect, interest-rate effect, foreign trade effect. Consumer spending: consumer wealth, household borrowing, consumer expectations, personal taxes. Investment spending: real interest rates, expected returns. Government spending: government spending increases, aggregate demand increases (as long as interest rates and tax rates do not change) More computers for government agencies: government spending decreases, aggregate demand decreases. Net export spending: national income abroad, exchange rates. Aggregate supply is a schedule or curve showing the relationship between the price level of output and the amount of real domestic output that firms in the economy produce. In the immediate short run, both input prices and output prices are fixed.

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