Winter 2010 Final 12: If consumption increases by a constant share of short-run output, economic shocks cause larger output fluctuations. See the IS Curve chapter. Multiplier effects. In the basic set-up, consumption is a “constant fraction of potential output”. And this feeds into the IS curve equation to be However, with consumption increasing by a constant fraction of short-run output, When you feed this into the output equation and solve for the IS curve equation, you get With v-bar between zero and one, the term in front exaggerates shocks to a-bar (look up “multiplier”). Meaning shocks are more exaggerated the more consumption responds to shifts in short-run output. TRUE |
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