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Chapter 13: The Aggregate Demand - Aggregate Supply Model Flashcards

1
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Two paths of study in macroeconomics:

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(1) Long-run growth and development

(2) Short-run fluctuations, or business cycles

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2
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Focuses on theories that affect economies over several decades

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Long Run Growth and Development

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3
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Focuses on time horizons of five years or less

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Short Run Growth Fluctuations or Business Cycles

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4
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GDP during expansions:

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Positive

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5
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GDP during recessions:

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Negative

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6
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Unemployment in expansions:

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Falls

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7
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Unemployment in recessions:

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Rises

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8
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The total demand for final goods and services in an economy

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Aggregate Demand

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9
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Three Reasons Why Quantity of AD and Price Level are Negative:

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(1) The Wealth Effect
(2) The Interest Rate Effect
(3) The International Trade Effect

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10
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The change in quantity of aggregate demand that results from wealth changes due to price level changes.

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Wealth Effect

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Occurs when a change in the price level leads to a change in interest rates and therefore in quantity of aggregate demand.

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Interest Rate Effect

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12
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The net value of one’s accumulated assets

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Wealth

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13
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The interest rates effect occurs through the _____________.

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Loanable Funds Market

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14
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Occurs when a change in the price level leads to a change in the quantity of net exports demanded

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International Trade Effect

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15
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Shift Factors in Aggregate Demand:

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(1) Consumption
(2) Investment
(3) Government Spending
(4) Net Exports

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16
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Consumption is influenced by:

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(1) Changes in real wealth
(2) General Expectations about the future
(3) Changes in taxes

17
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Investment is influenced by:

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(1) Investor Confidence
(2) Interest Rates
(3) Quantity of Money in the Economy

18
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Government spending is influenced by:

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Policymakers

19
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Net Exports influenced by:

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Shifts in response to changes in foreign income and the exchange value of the U.S. dollar

20
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Movements along the aggregate demand curve are caused by ________.

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Change in the price level

21
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T or F: Shifts in the aggregate demand curve occur when something other than the price level changes.

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True

22
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Aggregate Supply changes are measured in:

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(1) Short term

(2) Long term

23
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A time period sufficient enough for all prices to adjust

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Long term

24
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u*

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The level of output produced when an economy is at the natural rate of unemployment

25
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What shifts the long run aggregate supply curve?

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(1) Resources
(2) Technology
(3) Institutions

26
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The period of time in which some prices have not yet adjusted

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Short Run

27
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Three reasons why there is a positive relationship between the price level and the quantity of aggregate supply:

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(1) Sticky Input Prices
(2) Menu Costs
(3) Money Illusions

28
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The cost of changing prices

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Menu Costs

29
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Occurs when people interpret nominal changes in wages or prices as real changes. As discussed, this is false.

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Money Illusion

30
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T or F: Whenever the long run aggregate supply curve shifts, it takes the short run aggregate supply curve with it.

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True

31
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Factors that shift only the short run aggregate supply curve:

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(1) Changes in resource prices
(2) Changes in expectations of prices
(3) Supply Shocks

32
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Surprise events that change a firm’s production costs

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Supply Shock

33
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Reached when the quantity of aggregate demand is equal to the quantity of aggregate supply in the short and long run.

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Long Run Equilibrium

34
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LRAS = SRAS = AD

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Long Run Equilibirum

35
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Economy is at full employment and the unemployment rate is equal to the natural rate.

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Long Run Equilibrium

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