Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy (MindTap Course List)
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Author: William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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- Explain what kind of monetary policy and fiscal policy tools can be used to fight against inflationarrow_forwardWhich of the following will most likely cause a change in the natural rate of unemployment? Select one: a. expansionary fiscal policy b. contractionary monetary policy c. contractionary monetary policy d. none of the other alternatives is correct e. expansionary monetary policy.arrow_forwardHow would you explain the logic of a potential short run trade-off between unemployment and inflation to the President? In other words, why might there be an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation over the short run when the economy is very close to full employment and no technological advances are occurring simultaneously?arrow_forward
- could policy makers achieve a permanently lower level of unemployment if they were prepared to accept a slightly higher average rate of inflationarrow_forwardSuppose that actual output is $120 billion and potential (full-employment) output is $156 billion. What is an output gap in this hypothetical economy? Based on your estimate of the output gap, would you expect the unemployment level to be higher or lower than usual?arrow_forward
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