Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Aggregate
Demand and
Aggregate
Supply
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Chapter Outline
• Aggregate Demand
• Aggregate Supply
• Shifts in Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply
• Causes of Inflation
• Supply-Side Economics
• How the Government Can Influence
(but probably not control) the
Economy
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Aggregate Demand
AD
RGDP
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Why Aggregate Demand is
Downward Sloping
• Real Balances Effect
• Because higher prices reduce real spending power,
prices and output are negatively related.
• Foreign Purchases Effect
• When domestic prices are high, we will export less
to foreign buyers and we will import more from
foreign producers. Therefore higher prices leads to
less domestic output.
• Interest Rate Effect
• higher prices lead to inflation which leads to less
borrowing and a lowering of RGDP
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Aggregate Supply
Intermediate
Range
Keynesian Range
RGDP
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The Ranges of AS
• Keynesian Range
• Large amounts of unemployment make it so
that increases in aggregate demand have no
affect on wages or prices.
• Classical Range
• Full employment makes it so that increases in
aggregate demand only increase wages or
prices.
• Intermediate Range
• Some sectors of the economy reach full
employment more quickly than others.
PI AS
PI’
PI*
AD’
AD
PI AS
PI*
PI’
AD
AD’
• Input Prices
• Productivity
• Government Regulation
AS’
PI*
PI’
AD
AS
PI’
PI*
AD
RGDP’ RGDP*
RGDP
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Causes of Inflation