SRAS/LRAS Flashcards

(27 cards)

1
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What is the long run?

A

Period in which nominal wages (&mother input prices) are fully responsive to changes in price level

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What are nominal wages?

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Current level

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3
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What are real wages?

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Inflationary adjusted

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4
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What are the assumptions of the SRAS curve?

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  • initial price level is P1
  • nominal wages have been established on the expectation that PL will persist
  • PL is flexible both upward and downward
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5
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Why is the SRAS curve positively sloped?

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Nominal wages stay constant as PL changes

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6
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Why is the LRAS curve a vertical curve?

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Nominal wages eventually change by the same amount as the change in PL

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What happens with a leftward shift of the SRAS?

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In the LR workers discover that their real wages have declined because of increased PL

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What happens with a rightward shift of SRAS?

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Profits have fallen because PL decreases and wages don’t, this increases real wages

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9
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Where is equilibrium in the extended AD-AS model?

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Intersection of AD, LRAS, & SRAS

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10
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What happens to the extended AD-AS model because of demand pull inflation?

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  • Short run: increase in AD1 to AD2 drives up PL and increases real output, investment spending and/or net exports increase. Demand pull inflation drives up PL & increases output.
  • Long run: nominal wages rise and AS1 shifts left to AS2. Only PL rises
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When does cost pull inflation occur?

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When SRAS shifts leftward from AS1 to AS2

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12
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When does recession occur?

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When AD shifts left from AD1 to AD2

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13
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What is stagflation?

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  • Combo of recession and inflation

- leftward shift of SRAS from EQUILIBRIUM

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14
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What does the Phillips curve show?

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Cost-push inflation and the macro distinction between SR and LR

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What is the basic idea of the Phillips curve?

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  • the larger the increase in AD, the higher the rate of inflation and the greater the increase in real GDP
  • high inflation= low unemployment
  • low inflation= high employment
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What happens in the short run of the Phillips curve?

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  • if AD moves upward, PL rises and real GDP rises

- if AD moves downward, PL falls and real GDP falls

17
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What happens in the long run of the Phillips curve?

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The actual PL equals the expected PL and output is at its potential output with unemployment at its natural rate.
-to compensate for higher that expected PL, labor shortages and dissatisfaction with lower real wages will lead to higher wages in the next round of negotiation

18
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Stagflation

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Suggests that the Phillips curve shifted to a less desirable position that negates the trade off between inflation and unemployment
- may be caused by aggregate supply shocks

19
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Late 80s-90s oil prices

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Creates a beneficial AS boost to the economy

20
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Stagflation shifts the SRPC (short run Phillips curve) to the

21
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Supply siders

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Manipulate the economy by enacting policies designed to stimulate incentives to work, save, and invest

22
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Transfer payments

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Erode incentives to work (welfare, unemployment, disability)

23
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Some economists believe that tax cuts will likely cause demand pull inflation because

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The cuts will stimulate AD and overwhelm the effect on AS

24
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Ladder curve

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Shows the relationship between tax rates and tax revenues

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What is the target of supply siders?
Government regulation
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Reaganomics caused
Substantial deregulation, a 22% tax cut over 3 yrs, large decline in inflation and interest rates, long peace time expansion, surge in entrepreneurship, but savings dropped and productivity didn't rise after 1983
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What is the short run?
Period in which nominal wages (&mother input prices) remain fixed as the price level changes