A lower price elasticity of demand coefficient occurs when:

a. many substitutes exist.
b. the quantity demanded is more responsive.
c. few substitutes exist.
d. the market is broadly defined.

c

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Suppose the economy is at a point below its institutional production possibilities frontier. To improve this situation, Keynesian economists might propose that the government should __________ expenditures, which will cause the aggregate demand curve to shift to the __________ in an attempt to close this __________ gap

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