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Effect of Taxes and Imports on the Aggregate Demand Curve and the Multiplier
In an open economy with a government, both taxes and imports act as leakages from the circular flow of income, which reduces the size of the multiplier. When an autonomous demand shock increases income, a portion of this new income is immediately withdrawn through taxation, while another portion is spent on goods produced abroad (imports). Because this income is not re-spent within the domestic economy, it dampens the subsequent rounds of the multiplier process. This reduction in induced spending flattens the aggregate demand curve and results in a smaller overall multiplier effect on GDP. This mechanism relies on the model's assumptions that government spending does not automatically rise with tax revenue and that exports do not increase in response to higher domestic imports.
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