ECO 2013 Lecture 16: Macroeconomics Lecture Notes 10-14-2016

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Aggregate supply refers to the quantity of goods and services that firms are willing and able to supply. The relationship between this quantity and the price level is different in the long and short run: we will develop both a short-run and long-run aggregate supply curve. The long-run aggregate supply curve: lras. None of these are affected by the price level. Lras curve doesn"t depend on the price level, vertical line at the level of potential gdp. The short-run aggregate supply curve: sras. A firm is slow to raise prices when the price level is increasing, will have a good priced relatively cheap. Economists tend to believe that some firms and workers fail to accurately predict changes in the price level. Based on this, there are three potential explanations for why the. Sras curve is upward sloping: (1) contracts make some wages and prices sticky . Sticky refers to they don"t respond quickly to changes in demand or supply.

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