Transcript Chapter 35 - Cengage Learning

The Short-Run
Trade-Off between
Inflation and
Unemployment
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Figure 1 The Phillips Curve
Inflation
Rate
(percent
per year)
B
6
A
2
Phillips curve
0
4
7
Unemployment
Rate (percent)
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Figure 2 How the Phillips Curve is Related to
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
(a) The Model of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Price
Level
102
Inflation
Rate
(percent
per year)
Short-run
aggregate
supply
6
B
106
B
A
High
aggregate demand
Low aggregate
demand
0
(b) The Phillips Curve
7,500 8,000
(unemployment (unemployment
is 7%)
is 4%)
Quantity
of Output
A
2
Phillips curve
0
4
(output is
8,000)
Unemployment
7
(output is Rate (percent)
7,500)
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Figure 3 The Long-Run Phillips Curve
Inflation
Rate
1. When the
High
central bank
inflation
increases
the growth rate
of the money
supply, the
rate of inflation
increases . . .
Low
inflation
0
Long-run
Phillips curve
B
A
Natural rate of
unemployment
2. . . . but unemployment
remains at its natural rate
in the long run.
Unemployment
Rate
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Figure 4 How the Phillips Curve is Related to
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
(a) The Model of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Price
Level
P2
2. . . . raises
the price
P
level . . .
Long-run aggregate
supply
1. An increase in
the money supply
increases aggregate
B
demand . . .
(b) The Phillips Curve
Inflation
Rate
Long-run Phillips
curve
3. . . . and
increases the
inflation rate . . .
B
A
A
AD2
Aggregate
demand, AD
0
Natural rate
of output
Quantity
of Output
0
Natural rate of
unemployment
Unemployment
Rate
4. . . . but leaves output and unemployment
at their natural rates.
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Figure 5 How Expected Inflation Shifts the ShortRun Phillips Curve
Inflation
Rate
2. . . . but in the long run, expected
inflation rises, and the short-run
Phillips curve shifts to the right.
Long-run
Phillips curve
C
B
Short-run Phillips curve
with high expected
inflation
A
1. Expansionary policy moves
the economy up along the
short-run Phillips curve . . .
0
Short-run Phillips curve
with low expected
inflation
Natural rate of
unemployment
Unemployment
Rate
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Figure 6 The Breakdown of the Phillips Curve
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Figure 7 An Adverse Shock to Aggregate Supply
(a) The Model of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Price
Level
AS2
P2
3. . . . and
raises
the price
level . . .
B
A
P
Aggregate
supply, AS
(b) The Phillips Curve
Inflation
Rate
1. An adverse
shift in aggregate
supply . . .
4. . . . giving policymakers
a less favourable trade-off
between unemployment
and inflation.
B
A
PC2
Aggregate
demand
0
Y2
Y
2. . . . lowers output . . .
Quantity
of Output
Phillips curve, P C
0
Unemployment
Rate
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Figure 8 The Supply Shocks of the 1970s
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Figure 9 Disinflationary Monetary Policy in the
Short Run and the Long Run
Inflation
Rate
Long-run
Phillips curve
1. Contractionary policy moves
the economy down along the
short-run Phillips curve . . .
A
Short-run Phillips curve
with high expected
inflation
C
B
Short-run Phillips curve
with low expected
inflation
0
Natural rate of
unemployment
Unemployment
2. . . . but in the long run, expected Rate
inflation falls, and the short-run
Phillips curve shifts to the left.
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Figure 10 The Thatcher Disinflation
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