Contenu connexe Similaire à Aggregate demand (20) Plus de Awais Idrees (20) Aggregate demand3. Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
• Economic activity fluctuates from year to year.
• In most years production of goods and services
rises.
• On average over the past 50 years, production in the
U.S. economy has grown by about 3 percent per
year.
• In some years normal growth does not occur,
causing a recession.
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4. Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
• A recession is a period of declining real
incomes, and rising unemployment.
• A depression is a severe recession.
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5. THREE KEY FACTS ABOUT
ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
• Economic fluctuations are irregular and
unpredictable.
• Fluctuations in the economy are often called the
business cycle.
• Most macroeconomic variables fluctuate
together.
• As output falls, unemployment rises.
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6. THREE KEY FACTS ABOUT
ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
• Most macroeconomic variables fluctuate
together.
• Most macroeconomic variables that measure some
type of income or production fluctuate closely
together.
• Although many macroeconomic variables fluctuate
together, they fluctuate by different amounts.
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7. THREE KEY FACTS ABOUT
ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
• As output falls, unemployment rises.
• Changes in real GDP are inversely related to
changes in the unemployment rate.
• During times of recession, unemployment rises
substantially.
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8. Figure 1 A Look At Short-Run Economic
Fluctuations
(c) Unemployment Rate
Percent of
Labor Force
12
10
8 Unemployment rate
6
4
2
0
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
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9. EXPLAINING SHORT-RUN
ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
• How the Short Run Differs from the Long Run
• Most economists believe that classical theory
describes the world in the long run but not in the
short run.
• Changes in the money supply affect nominal variables
but not real variables in the long run.
• The assumption of monetary neutrality is not appropriate
when studying year-to-year changes in the economy.
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10. The Basic Model of Economic Fluctuations
• Two variables are used to develop a model to
analyze the short-run fluctuations.
• The economy’s output of goods and services
measured by real GDP.
• The overall price level measured by the CPI or the
GDP deflator.
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11. The Basic Model of Economic Fluctuations
• The Basic Model of Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply
• Economist use the model of aggregate demand and
aggregate supply to explain short-run fluctuations
in economic activity around its long-run trend.
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12. The Basic Model of Economic Fluctuations
• The Basic Model of Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply
• The aggregate-demand curve shows the quantity of
goods and services that households, firms, and the
government want to buy at each price level.
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13. The Basic Model of Economic Fluctuations
• The Basic Model of Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply
• The aggregate-supply curve shows the quantity of
goods and services that firms choose to produce and
sell at each price level.
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14. Figure 2 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate
Supply...
Price
Level
Aggregate
supply
Equilibrium
price level
Aggregate
demand
0 Equilibrium Quantity of
output Output
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15. THE AGGREGATE-DEMAND
CURVE
• The four components of GDP (Y) contribute to
the aggregate demand for goods and services.
Y = C + I + G + NX
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16. Figure 3 The Aggregate-Demand Curve...
Price
Level
P
P2
1. A decrease
Aggregate
in the price
demand
level . . .
0 Y Y2 Quantity of
Output
2. . . . increases the quantity of
goods and services demanded.
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17. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Is
Downward Sloping
• The Price Level and Consumption: The Wealth
Effect
• The Price Level and Investment: The Interest
Rate Effect
• The Price Level and Net Exports: The
Exchange-Rate Effect
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18. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Is
Downward Sloping
• The Price Level and Consumption: The Wealth
Effect
• A decrease in the price level makes consumers feel
more wealthy, which in turn encourages them to
spend more.
• This increase in consumer spending means larger
quantities of goods and services demanded.
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19. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Is
Downward Sloping
• The Price Level and Investment: The Interest
Rate Effect
• A lower price level reduces the interest rate, which
encourages greater spending on investment goods.
• This increase in investment spending means a larger
quantity of goods and services demanded.
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20. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Is
Downward Sloping
• The Price Level and Net Exports: The
Exchange-Rate Effect
• When a fall in the price level causes interest rates to
fall, the real exchange rate depreciates, which
stimulates net exports.
• The increase in net export spending means a larger
quantity of goods and services demanded.
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21. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Might
Shift
• The downward slope of the aggregate demand
curve shows that a fall in the price level raises
the overall quantity of goods and services
demanded.
• Many other factors, however, affect the
quantity of goods and services demanded at any
given price level.
• When one of these other factors changes, the
aggregate demand curve shifts.
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22. Why the Aggregate-Demand Curve Might
Shift
• Shifts arising from
• Consumption
• Investment
• Government Purchases
• Net Exports
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23. Shifts in the Aggregate Demand
Curve
Price
Level
P1
D2
Aggregate
demand, D1
0 Y1 Y2 Quantity of
Output
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24. THE AGGREGATE-SUPPLY
CURVE
• In the long run, the aggregate-supply curve is
vertical.
• In the short run, the aggregate-supply curve is
upward sloping.
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25. THE AGGREGATE-SUPPLY
CURVE
• The Long-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
• In the long run, an economy’s production of goods
and services depends on its supplies of labor,
capital, and natural resources and on the available
technology used to turn these factors of production
into goods and services.
• The price level does not affect these variables in the
long run.
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26. Figure 4 The Long-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
Price
Level
Long-run
aggregate
supply
P
P2
2. . . . does not affect
1. A change the quantity of goods
in the price and services supplied
level . . . in the long run.
0 Natural rate Quantity of
of output Output
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27. THE AGGREGATE-SUPPLY
CURVE
• The Long-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
• The long-run aggregate-supply curve is vertical at
the natural rate of output.
• This level of production is also referred to as
potential output or full-employment output.
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28. Why the Long-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
Might Shift
• Any change in the economy that alters the
natural rate of output shifts the long-run
aggregate-supply curve.
• The shifts may be categorized according to the
various factors in the classical model that affect
output.
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29. Why the Long-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
Might Shift
• Shifts arising
• Labor
• Capital
• Natural Resources
• Technological Knowledge
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30. Figure 5 Long-Run Growth and Inflation
2. . . . and growth in the Long-run
money supply shifts aggregate
aggregate demand . . . supply,
LRAS1980 LRAS1990 LRAS 2000
Price
Level
1. In the long run,
technological
progress shifts
P2000 long-run aggregate
supply . . .
4. . . . and
ongoing inflation.
P1990
Aggregate
Demand, AD2000
P1980
AD1990
AD1980
0 Y1980 Y1990 Y2000 Quantity of
Output
3. . . . leading to growth
in output . . .
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31. A New Way to Depict Long-Run Growth and
Inflation
• Short-run fluctuations in output and price level
should be viewed as deviations from the
continuing long-run trends.
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32. Why the Aggregate-Supply Curve Slopes
Upward in the Short Run
• In the short run, an increase in the overall level
of prices in the economy tends to raise the
quantity of goods and services supplied.
• A decrease in the level of prices tends to reduce
the quantity of goods and services supplied.
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33. Figure 6 The Short-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
Price
Level
Short-run
aggregate
supply
P
P2
1. A decrease 2. . . . reduces the quantity
in the price of goods and services
level . . . supplied in the short run.
0 Y2 Y Quantity of
Output
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34. Why the Aggregate-Supply Curve Slopes
Upward in the Short Run
• The Misperceptions Theory
• The Sticky-Wage Theory
• The Sticky-Price Theory
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35. Why the Aggregate-Supply Curve Slopes
Upward in the Short Run
• The Misperceptions Theory
• Changes in the overall price level temporarily
mislead suppliers about what is happening in the
markets in which they sell their output:
• A lower price level causes misperceptions about
relative prices.
• These misperceptions induce suppliers to decrease the
quantity of goods and services supplied.
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36. Why the Aggregate-Supply Curve Slopes
Upward in the Short Run
• The Sticky-Wage Theory
• Nominal wages are slow to adjust, or are “sticky” in
the short run:
• Wages do not adjust immediately to a fall in the price
level.
• A lower price level makes employment and production
less profitable.
• This induces firms to reduce the quantity of goods and
services supplied.
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37. The Sticky-Price Theory
• Prices of some goods and services adjust sluggishly
in response to changing economic conditions:
• An unexpected fall in the price level leaves some firms
with higher-than-desired prices.
• This depresses sales, which induces firms to reduce the
quantity of goods and services they produce.
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38. Why the Short-Run Aggregate-Supply Curve
Might Shift
• Shifts arising
• Labor
• Capital
• Natural Resources.
• Technology.
• Expected Price Level.
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39. Why the Aggregate Supply Curve Might Shift
• An increase in the expected price level reduces
the quantity of goods and services supplied and
shifts the short-run aggregate supply curve to
the left.
• A decrease in the expected price level raises the
quantity of goods and services supplied and
shifts the short-run aggregate supply curve to
the right.
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40. Figure 7 The Long-Run Equilibrium
Price
Level
Long-run
aggregate
Short-run
supply
aggregate
supply
Equilibrium A
price
Aggregate
demand
0 Natural rate Quantity of
of output Output
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41. Figure 8 A Contraction in Aggregate Demand
2. . . . causes output to fall in the short run . . .
Price
Level
Long-run Short-run aggregate
aggregate supply, AS
supply
AS2
3. . . . but over
time, the short-run
P A aggregate-supply
curve shifts . . .
P2 B
1. A decrease in
aggregate demand . . .
P3 C
Aggregate
demand, AD
AD2
0 Y2 Y Quantity of
4. . . . and output returns Output
to its natural rate.
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42. TWO CAUSES OF ECONOMIC
FLUCTUATIONS
• Shifts in Aggregate Demand
• In the short run, shifts in aggregate demand cause
fluctuations in the economy’s output of goods and
services.
• In the long run, shifts in aggregate demand affect
the overall price level but do not affect output.
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43. TWO CAUSES OF ECONOMIC
FLUCTUATIONS
• An Adverse Shift in Aggregate Supply
• A decrease in one of the determinants of aggregate
supply shifts the curve to the left:
• Output falls below the natural rate of employment.
• Unemployment rises.
• The price level rises.
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44. Figure 10 An Adverse Shift in Aggregate Supply
1. An adverse shift in the short-
run aggregate-supply curve . . .
Price
Level
Long-run Short-run
aggregate AS2 aggregate
supply supply, AS
B
P2
A
P
3. . . . and
the price
level to rise.
Aggregate demand
0 Y2 Y Quantity of
2. . . . causes output to fall . . . Output
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45. The Effects of a Shift in Aggregate Supply
• Stagflation
• Adverse shifts in aggregate supply cause stagflation
—a period of recession and inflation.
• Output falls and prices rise.
• Policymakers who can influence aggregate demand
cannot offset both of these adverse effects
simultaneously.
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46. The Effects of a Shift in Aggregate Supply
• Policy Responses to Recession
• Policymakers may respond to a recession in one of
the following ways:
• Do nothing and wait for prices and wages to adjust.
• Take action to increase aggregate demand by using
monetary and fiscal policy.
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47. Figure 11 Accommodating an Adverse Shift in
Aggregate Supply
1. When short-run aggregate
supply falls . . .
Price
Level
Long-run Short-run
aggregate AS2 aggregate
supply supply, AS
P3 C 2. . . . policymakers can
P2 accommodate the shift
A by expanding aggregate
3. . . . which P demand . . .
causes the
price level
to rise 4. . . . but keeps output AD2
further . . . at its natural rate.
Aggregate demand, AD
0 Natural rate Quantity of
of output Output
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48. Summary
• All societies experience short-run economic
fluctuations around long-run trends.
• These fluctuations are irregular and largely
unpredictable.
• When recessions occur, real GDP and other
measures of income, spending, and production
fall, and unemployment rises.
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49. Summary
• Economists analyze short-run economic
fluctuations using the aggregate demand and
aggregate supply model.
• According to the model of aggregate demand
and aggregate supply, the output of goods and
services and the overall level of prices adjust to
balance aggregate demand and aggregate
supply.
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50. Summary
• The aggregate-demand curve slopes downward
for three reasons: a wealth effect, an interest
rate effect, and an exchange rate effect.
• Any event or policy that changes consumption,
investment, government purchases, or net
exports at a given price level will shift the
aggregate-demand curve.
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51. Summary
• In the long run, the aggregate supply curve is
vertical.
• The short-run, the aggregate supply curve is
upward sloping.
• The are three theories explaining the upward
slope of short-run aggregate supply: the
misperceptions theory, the sticky-wage theory,
and the sticky-price theory.
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52. Summary
• Events that alter the economy’s ability to
produce output will shift the short-run
aggregate-supply curve.
• Also, the position of the short-run aggregate-
supply curve depends on the expected price
level.
• One possible cause of economic fluctuations is
a shift in aggregate demand.
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53. Summary
• A second possible cause of economic
fluctuations is a shift in aggregate supply.
• Stagflation is a period of falling output and
rising prices.
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Notes de l'éditeur Remove bullet in graph – graph needs no additional title??? The order of discussion in Mankiw has been changed. The “misperceptions theory” must be moved to the bottom of the list. (This may affect the entire order of presentation following this slide.) Move this slide so that it follows the next two slides. That puts the discussion in the new order of the text. For consistency, title this slide, “Why the Aggregate supply curves slopes upward in the short run” like the previous two slides. Then move “The sticky-price theory” in large print to the top bullet (like the previous two slides). Should title be, “Why the short-run aggregate supply…” Bullet three, move the misperceptions theory to the end.