To achieve long-run equilibrium in an economy with a recessionary gap, without the use of stabilization policy, the inflation rate must:

A. not change.
B. increase.
C. decrease.
D. either increase or decrease depending on the relative shifts of AD and AS.

Answer: C

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As wages rise, the substitution effect induces households to

A) choose leisure rather than supplying labor in the labor market. B) choose supplying labor in the labor market rather than engage in leisure. C) reduce the opportunity cost of leisure. D) reduce the economic rent from leisure.

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