Consider the following model of an economy operating with fixed wages, prices and interest rates and hasexcess capacity. Adsume all figures are I Zambian kwacha. C=100+0.8yd, T=100+25Y, G=980 and I= 500 Where c is consumption, yd is disposable income, T is taxes net of transformers, G is government spending on goods and services and I is investments.  Is the government running a surplus or deficit Show the impact of a reduction in government spending by 80 on the equilibrium level of national income Illustrate your new equilibrium in the same Keynesian cross diagram

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Consider the following model of an economy operating with fixed wages, prices and interest rates and hasexcess capacity. Adsume all figures are I Zambian kwacha.

C=100+0.8yd, T=100+25Y, G=980 and I= 500

Where c is consumption, yd is disposable income, T is taxes net of transformers, G is government spending on goods and services and I is investments. 

Is the government running a surplus or deficit

Show the impact of a reduction in government spending by 80 on the equilibrium level of national income

Illustrate your new equilibrium in the same Keynesian cross diagram

 

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