Reduced Multiplier Effect without Spare Capacity and Fixed Wages
In an economy without spare productive capacity and fixed wages, the multiplier's effect on real output is smaller. This occurs because an increase in aggregate demand causes firms' costs to rise, leading to higher prices and wages. As a result, a portion of the initial spending increase is absorbed by inflation, dampening the overall expansion of real output and thus reducing the size of the multiplier.
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Evaluating Economic Policy Advice
For an initial increase in aggregate spending to result primarily in a larger increase in real output rather than price inflation, firms must be able to expand production without a significant rise in their costs. This condition holds when there is spare productive capacity and when the availability of unemployed workers prevents upward pressure on ____.
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Match each economic scenario with the most likely primary outcome of a large, sudden increase in government spending.
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