ECON 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Money Illusion, Menu Cost, Aggregate Supply
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Shifts in lras: the lras curve shifts when there is a long-run change in a nation"s ability to produce output, or a change in y* The factors that shift lras are the same factors that determine economic growth- resources, technology, and institutions. Short- run as: while, in the long run, the price level does not impact as, in the short run there is a positive relationship between the price level and the quantity of as. There are three reasons for their relationship- inflexible input prices, money illusion, and menu costs: input prices: sticky since they take time to change, output prices: flexible (easy to change) Money illusion: occurs when people interpret nominal values as real values. In terms of as, if output prices are falling but workers are reluctant to accept nominal pay decreases, they reinforce the (downward) stickiness of input prices. Resources, technology, and institutions: affect long- run aggregate supply. Sras: supply shocks can be negative or positive.
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| AD. |
| SRAS. |
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| b) | The LRAS curve is drawn as a vertical line at potential output (Y*) to indicate that
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| e) | Which of the following will shift the aggregate demand curve to the right?
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| f) | Suppose a stock market crash decreases the stock of household wealth and therefore causes autonomous consumption to fall. Which of the following is the likely result?
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| g) | An economy is characterized by the AD equation P = 200 ? 0.02Y, SRAS equation P = 100 and LRAS equation Y* = 5000. In the absence of any change in policy or exogenous shocks, this economy will achieve a long-run price level of
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| h) | The AD-AS model depicts a self-correcting economy. This means that the price level in the model adjusts automatically in response to a(n) _____ gap, so as to eliminate the _____ gap in the long run, without requiring any help from government policies.
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| i) | The aggregate demand curve shows
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| j) | Consider an economy initially at long-run equilibrium with output (Y) equal to potential output (Y*). If the SRAS is positively sloped, then a shift to the right of the AD curve will lead to _____ in the price level, in the short run. In the long run, the SRAS curve will shift to the _____ and the equilibrium will be at __________.
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