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With the price level held constant, increases in consumption, investment, government, and net export expenditures shift the aggregate expenditures schedule upward and the aggregate demand curve to the right. Decreases in these spending components produce the opposite effects.

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A change in the price level alters the location of the aggregate expenditures schedule through the real-balances, interest- rate, and foreign purchases effects. The aggregate demand curve is derived from the aggregate expenditures model by allowing the price level to change and

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Go to the OPEC Web site, www.opec.org, and find the current “OPEC basket price” of oil. By clicking on that amount, you will find the annual prices of oil for the past 5 years. By what percentage is the current price higher

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In early 2001 investment spending sharply declined in the United States. In the 2 months following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, consumption also declined. Use AD-AS analysis to show the two impacts on real GDP.

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Use shifts of the AD and AS curves to explain (a) The U.S. experience of strong economic growth, full employment, and price stability in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (b) How a strong negative wealth effect from, say, a

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Explain: “Unemployment can be caused by a decrease of aggregate demand or a decrease of aggregate supply.” In each case, specify the price-level outcomes.

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business-economics

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Why does a reduction in aggregate demand reduce real output, rather than the price level? Why might a full-strength multiplier apply to a decrease in aggregate demand?

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business-economics

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Explain how an upsloping aggregate supply curve weakens the realized multiplier effect.

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business-economics

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Assume that (a) the price level is flexible upward but not downward and (b) the economy is currently operating at its full-employment output. Other things equal, how will each of the following affect the equilibrium price level and equilibrium level of real

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What effects would each of the following have on aggregate demand or aggregate supply? In each case use a diagram to show the expected effects on the equilibrium price level and the level of real output. Assume all other things remain constant.