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Recession Keynesian
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
12/05/2010

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Term
Keynesian response to classical
Definition

  • assumptions are not valid in the short run
  • in the long run we are all dead

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Fiscal Policy change in government spending
Definition

 

  • Increase in govt spending. decrease in taxes
  • As spending increases AD shifts to the right increasing income and the price level until the economy is back at NAIRU

 

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Fiscal policy Change in Taxes
Definition

  • government does not do initial spending consumers do
  • as taxes decrease spending increases

 

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Expansionary Monetary Policy
Definition

 

  • decrease (r) by increase in $ supply increases investment spending
  • supply curve would shift to right and (r) would fall
  • increase in TS shifts AD to the right

 

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Monetary Policy: higher interest rates
Definition

 

  • people are less willing to hold money b/c it earns no interest.
  • hold wealth in bonds
  • so interest rates decrease

 

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MEI
Definition

  • amount of money that firms will be willing to invest at different interest rates
  • Negative Function because as the interest rate falls firms are willing to invest more

Term
interest
Definition
cost of production for capital expenditures 
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Liquidity Trap
Definition

if demand for money is very steep then (r) will change alot

in recession the d$ approaches horizontal 

No matter whats happens tot he (r) ppl do not 

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