Aggregate Demand
Aggregate Supply
Economic Gaps
Fiscal Policy & Multipliers
Short Run vs. Long Run
100

What curve shows total spending in the economy?

What is aggregate demand?

100

What does SRAS stand for?

What is short-run aggregate supply?

100

Where do the aggregate demand and the aggregate supply intersect?

What is equilibrium?

100

What type of fiscal policy is used during a recession?

What is expansionary fiscal policy?

100

In which period are wages sticky?

What is the short run?

200

What are the four components of aggregate demand?

What are consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports?

200

Why is the SRAS curve upward sloping?

What are wages sticky in the short run?

200

Real GDP below potential GDP is called what type of gap?

What is a recessionary gap?

200

Which is more powerful: a tax cut or a government spending increase?

What is a government spending increase?

200

What curve shows full employment output?

What is LRAS?

300

If interest rates fall, what happens to aggregate demand?

What is the aggregate demand shift to the right?

300

Rising oil prices cause SRAS to shift in which direction?

What is to the left?

300

When the economy is producing at potential GDP, what type of gap exists?

What is no gap?

300

If MPC = 0.8, what is the spending multiplier?

What is 5?

300

In the long run, wages are this.

What is flexible?

400

Higher taxes will cause the aggregate demand to move in which direction?

What is to the left?

400

Better technology causes which curve(s) to shift right?

What are SRAS and LRAS?

400

During a recessionary gap, wages will eventually do what?

What is fall?

400

Expansionary fiscal policy shifts the aggregate demand in which direction?

What is to the right?

400

In the long run, the economy returns to what level of GDP?

What is potential GDP?

500

The government increases spending. What happens to the aggregate demand and real GDP in the short run?

What is the aggregate demand shift to the right, and the real GDP increase?

500

Why does LRAS not change when the price level changes?

What is the long-run output that depends on resources and technology, not prices?

500

Falling wages cause which curve to shift right?

What is SRAS?

500

If the multiplier is 4, a $25 billion spending increase changes GDP by how much?

What is $100 billion?

500

What causes long-run economic growth?

What is improved technology, resources, or productivity?

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