Chapter 23: Q 5. (page 617)
If the labor force becomes more productive over time, how would the long-run aggregate supply curve be affected?
Short Answer
Long-run aggregate supply curve shifts to the right.
Chapter 23: Q 5. (page 617)
If the labor force becomes more productive over time, how would the long-run aggregate supply curve be affected?
Long-run aggregate supply curve shifts to the right.
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Using an aggregate demand and supply graph, illustrate and describe the following:
a. The short-run effects of an increase in the money supply.
b. The long-run effects of an increase in the money supply.
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Explain why the aggregate demand curve slopes downward and the short-run aggregate supply curve slopes upward.
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1. Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database, and find data on real government spending (GCEC1), real GDP (GDPC1), taxes (WO06RC1 Q 027 SBEA), and the personal consumption expenditure price index (PCECTPI), a measure of the price level. Download all of the data into a spreadsheet, and convert the tax data series into real taxes. To do this, for each quarter, divide taxes by the price index and then multiply by .
a. Calculate the level change in real GDP over the four most recent quarters of data available and the four quarters prior to that.
b. Calculate the level change in real government spending and real taxes over the four most recent quarters of data available and the four quarters prior to that.
c. Are your results consistent with what you would expect? How do your answers to part (b) help explain, if at all, your answer to part (a)? Explain using the IS and A D curves.
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