If the short-run Phillips curve were stable, which of the following would be unusual?
a. an increase in government spending and a fall in unemployment
b. an increase in inflation and a decrease in output
c. a decrease in the inflation rate and a rise in the unemployment rate
d. a decrease in the money supply and a rise in the unemployment rate.
b
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The expectations theory and the segmented markets theory do not explain the facts very well, but they provide the groundwork for the most widely accepted theory of the term structure of interest rates
A) the Keynesian theory. B) the separable markets theory. C) the liquidity premium theory. D) the asset market approach.
If a rise in anticipated inflation produces for some reason a less-than-equal rise in the nominal interest rate, this ________ the costs of anticipated inflation by ________ saving
A) reduces, encouraging B) reduces, discouraging C) increases, encouraging D) increases, discouraging