When the aggregate supply curve intersects the aggregate demand curve at a level of real GDP that exceeds potential GDP, is there an inflationary gap or a deflationary gap? What adjustments will take place?
What will be an ideal response?
There is an inflationary gap because real GDP exceeds potential GDP. In this situation, the money wage rate will rise, shifting the aggregate supply curve leftward and raising the price level. Eventually the economy will return to potential GDP. At this time, real GDP is lower than when the inflationary gap existed but the price level is higher.
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When a central bank targets inflation, its inflation targets are usually specified as
A) a specific inflation rate target, for example, 1 percent. B) the short-term interest rate minus 2 percent. C) a point on the short-run Phillips curve. D) a range for the inflation rate. E) deviations from the inflation rate.
The new growth theory argues that
What will be an ideal response?