ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Nominal Rigidity

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ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Demand Curve

ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Nominal Rigidity

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What kind of economic stu : supply shocks, errors in expected in ation, wage rigidity, wages don"t go up as fast as prices, they are sticky, they do not change rapidly, creates issues. The actual level of output (gdp) and overall prices are determined by aggregate demand and short run aggregate supply. Our economy is self adjusting: economic forces that drive our economy back to long run, despite short run uctuations, sras and lras are dancing partners, lras leads, as it moves, so does sras, lras pulls sras with it. When lras = sras = ad, we are in long run equilibrium: nothing else to do until something happens. If ad = sras does not equal lras, economic is not in equilibrium. (something must happen!) Example: punching bag and boxer: punching bag is long run, always coming back, short run is guy hitting punching bag.

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1. In the long run, when prices are perfectly flexible:

a. aggregate supply is vertical and a market economy is self-correcting.

b. a market economy cannot self-correct.

c. government will be required to set prices to maintain equilibrium.

d. changes in aggregate demand cause equilibrium real GDP to change.

2. An increase in household wealth when the SRAS curve is upward sloping:

a. leads to an increase in the price level but has no impact on real GDP

b. has no impact on the price level but leads to an increase in real GDP

c. leads to an increase in both the price level and real GDP

d. has no impact on the price level or real GDP

3. In the long run, continued increases in aggregate demand not matched by similar increases in aggregate supply will cause:

a. an increase in the full-employment level of real GDP

b. a recessionary gap

c. a decrease in the price level

d. an increase in the price level

4. The vertical long-run aggregate supply curve implies that:

a. changes in aggregate demand will not affect the price level

b. the short-run aggregate supply curve is also vertical

c. natural or full-employment real GDP does not depend on the price level, in the long run

d. natural or full-employment real GDP is the same as the equilibrium real GDP in the short run

5. A rightward shift of the long-run aggregate supply curve illustrates:

a. economic growth

b. a recessionary gap

c. an inflationary gap

d. a decrease in natural real GDP

6. When the economy is in a recessionary gap

a. there is a surplus of labor

b. there is a shortage of labor

c. it is producing a real GDP level that is greater than natural real GDP

d. the unemployment rate is less than the natural unemployment rate

7. If the actual unemployment rate is less than the natural unemployment rate:

a. a recessionary gap exists and wages are likely to rise

b. an inflationary gap exists and wages are likely to rise

c. a recessionary gap exists and wages are likely to fall

d. an inflationary gap exists and wages are likely to fall

8. An economy in long-run equilibrium is producing:

a. a level of real GDP that is greater than its natural real GDP

b. where both the price level and real output are maximized

c. a level of real GDP equal to its natural real GDP

d. in the vertical range of aggregate demand.

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1) If actual (equilibrium ) real GDP is less than the full-employment, or natural, level of real GDP, then wages and other input prices are expected to:

a. fall and SRAS to shift to the left until long-run equilibrium is achieved.

b. fall and SRAS to shift to the right until long-run equilibrium is achieved.

c. rise and SRAS to shift to the left until long-run equilibrium is achieved.

d. rise and SRAS to shift to the right until long-run equilibrium is achieved.

2) In a self-regulating economy, inflationary gaps are automatically eliminated in the long run by:

a. decreases in wage rates that cause short-run aggregate supply to shift rightward.

b. decreases in wage rates that cause short-run aggregate supply to shift leftward.

c. increases in wage rates that cause short-run aggregate supply to shift rightward.

d. increases in wage rates that cause short-run aggregate supply to shift leftward.

3) Assume the economy is initially in equilibrium at the full-employment level of real GDP. If businesses and consumers become pessimistic regarding future economic conditions, ceteris paribus, the aggregate demand curve will shift to the ________, causing the level of output to ______.

a. left; fall

b. right; fall

c. left; rise

d. right; rise

4) Economists that advocate a macroeconomic policy of laissez-faire:

a. believe the economy is self-regulating only if the government intervenes to move the economy to equilibrium at natural real GDP.

b. believe the economy is self-regulating and will automatically move to equilibrium at natural real GDP in the long run.

c. also advocate central planning and government control of resources.

d. also advocate active government intervention in the economy.

5) Which of the following summarizes the process for closing a recessionary gap if the economy is self-regulating?

a. Labor shortages put upward pressure on wages, which leads to higher costs of production and a decrease in short-run aggregate supply.

b. Labor shortages put downward pressure on wages, which leads to increases in employment and spending and an increase in aggregate demand.

c. Unemployed resources put upward pressure on the price level, which leads to higher wages, increases in spending, and increases in aggregate demand.

d. Unemployed resources put downward pressure on the price level, which leads to lower costs of production and an increase in short-run aggregate supply.

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1. If the price level doubles and the real output doesn't change, then nominal output also doubles.
2. Inflation makes it less difficult to interpret the information conveyed by prices.

3. Laissez-faire economists oppose government intervention in the market process.

4. Active demand management policies are based on the work of JohnMaynard Keynes.

5. In the AS/AD model, as the price level rises, the real value of assets increases, causing consumption to increase. This is one reason why the aggregate demand curve slopes down.

6. The short-run aggregate supply curve is upward sloping in part because increases in aggregate demand cause some firms to increase their price markups.

7. If productivity and wages both raises by 3 percent, then the short-run aggregate supply curve does not shift.

8. The long-run aggregate supply curve is vertical because all prices adjust in the long run.

9. If the economy is not in long-run equilibrium and other things are equal, then prices will eventually adjust to bring the economy to long-run equilibrium.

10. Most economists agree that it is possible for fiscal policy to fine-tune the economy.

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ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Nominal Rigidity

ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Demand Curve

ECON 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Nominal Rigidity

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