Even if expectations of inflation are rational, sluggish adjustment of wages and prices will still create a short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
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Explanation: Wages and prices are sticky in the short run and this creates a short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
Even if expectations of inflation are rational, sluggish adjustment of wages and prices will still create...
What might prevent quick or immediate price adjustments with rational expectations, such that there is a trade-off between inflation and unemployment?
Lucas and Sargent argue that the short-run trade-off between unemployment and inflation is caused by workers and firms using Fed policy to predict inflation. workers and firms using all the information available to predict inflation. workers and forms rapidly adjusting wages and prices in response to changes in expectations. workers and forms being fooled by unexpected changes in monetary policy.
32. The rational expectations hypotheses implies that discretionary macroeconomic policy is: a. relatively effective in both the short run and long run b. relatively effective in the short run but ineffective in the long run c. relatively ineffective in both the short run and long run d. effective in the long run since decision makers will continually make predictable, systematic errors 33. The modern view of the Phillips curve suggests that a. when inflation is less than anticipated, unemployment will...
Give five explanations for the trade-off between unemployment and inflation in the short and long run.
Attempts: 0 Keep the Highest: 0/1.6 10. Inflation and unemployment Suppose that the government believes the economy is not producing goods and services at its optimal level. In an attempt to stimulate the economy, the government increases the quantity of money in the economy by printing more money. This monetary policy change in prices induces firms to produce the economy's demand for goods and services, leading to product prices. In the short run, the ▼ goods and services. This, in...
The short-run trade-off between the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate is best represented by: A. the long-run aggregate supply curve. B. the aggregate demand curve. C. the short-run aggregate supply curve. D. the Phillips curve.
1. Which of the following best describes the relationship between inflation and unemployment? A) As inflation increases, unemployment will always increase B) It includes periods in which there is a trade-off between the two, but is overall more nuanced and varied C) There is never a trade-off between inflation and unemployment D) It adheres to the Phillips curve trade-off in both the short and long run time periods 2. A large decrease in government purchases due to a reduction in...
42 Assume that there is no unanticipated inflation and that wages and prices are flexible. What will happen to short run real gross domestic product (RGDP) and the price level in the long run if the Federal Reserve purchases government securities in the open market? RGDP 10] Price Level 2 (A) Decrease 2 Decreased (B) No change Increase of GA () (C) No change Decrease CAO (D) Increase A No change 2 ) (E) Increase Increase 2A (5)
6. You are the new leader of Egypt’s central bank. Egypt has been experiencing high inflation, and your task is to reduce that inflation rate. a. What policy actions can your central bank take to reduce inflation? b. In a well-labeled graph, show how your policy actions affect the trade-off between inflation and unemployment in the short and long run. c. Explain how inflation and unemployment change over time as a result of your policy actions
52. Studying alternative theories of how people form expectations is particularly relevant to monetary policy because A. if people fully expect inflation to occur, the effects of monetary policy are more widespread. monetary policy can only have real effects on the economy if people fully expect inflation. c. unexpected inflation cause prices to be flexible. d. the effects of expected inflation are completely different from the effects of unexpected inflation e expected inflation causes prices to become sticky. 53. Monetary...