Starting from long-run equilibrium, a decrease in autonomous investment results in ________ output in the short run and ________ output in the long run.

In a typical business cycle, what stage immediately follows a peak?

(A) Contraction (B) Expansion (C) Growth (D) Trough

In what sense does the IMF act as a lender of last resort? How might the IMF's actions during the Mexican crisis of the mid-1990s have contributed to the Asian currency crisis a few years later?

What will be an ideal response?