ECON 295 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Nominal Rigidity, Output Gap, Potential Output

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17 Apr 2017

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McGill University

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Economics

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ECON 295

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Mayssun El- Attar Vilalta

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Macroeconomics policy chapter 24: from the short-run to the long-run: the adjustment of factor prices. Adjustment process span: the span between the short and the long run. It assumes that factor prices are flexible but that technology and factor suppliers are constant (and therefore potential national income y* is constant. Factor prices change when there is a short-run output gap. Inflationary gap leads to higher factor prices (wages) and a leftward shift in the as curve. The as curve will continue to shift leftward, raising the price level in the process, until potential income is restored. A decrease in aggregate demand opens a recessionary gap, leading to slower wage growth or possibly lower wages. If wages fall, the as curve will shift rightward, thereby generating lower prices and greater output sticky downward, takes a very long time. Adjustment symmetry: flexible wages upward, but sticky wages downward.

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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. As prices fall, the value of people's existing assets rises and people increase expenditures. This occurs as a result of the:

a. international effect.

b. interest rate effect.

c. money wealth effect.

d. multiplier effect.

2. An increase in aggregate demand, in the long run, will change:

a. both output and the price level.

b. neither output nor the price level.

c. the price level but not output.

d. output but not the price level.

3. A change in which of the following will shift the long-run aggregate supply curve?

a. The price level

b. Aggregate demand

c. Available resources

d. Sales or excise taxes

4. If potential output exceeds actual output, the economy:

a. is experiencing a recessionary gap.

b. is in neither a short-run nor long-run equilibrium.

c. may be in a long-run equilibrium but is not in short-run equilibrium.

d. is experiencing an inflationary gap.

5. Keynes believed the economy was:

a. always moving toward potential income.

b. always at potential income.

c. always moving away from potential income.

d. fluctuating around potential income.

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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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ECON 295 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Nominal Rigidity, Output Gap, Potential Output

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