by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What are Menu Costs? These costs of changing prices are called menu costs—like the costs of printing a new set of menus with different prices in a restaurant. Prices do respond to forces of supply and demand, but from a macroeconomic perspective, the process of...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
How are Net Exports a Part of Aggregate Demand? Recall that exports are domestically produced products that sell abroad while imports are foreign produced products that consumers purchase domestically. Since we define aggregate demand as spending on domestic goods and...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is Consumption Expenditure? Consumption expenditure is spending by households and individuals on durable goods, nondurable goods, and services. Durable goods are items that last and provide value over time, such as automobiles. Nondurable goods are things like...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Recessionary and Inflationary Gap? Keynes argued that, for reasons we explain shortly, aggregate demand is not stable—that it can change unexpectedly. Suppose the economy starts where AD intersects SRAS at P0 and Yp. Because Yp is potential output, the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Keynesian Perspective of Aggregate Demand? The Keynesian perspective focuses on aggregate demand. The idea is simple: firms produce output only if they expect it to sell. Thus, while the availability of the factors of production determines a nation’s...
