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The Central Bank of the Bahamas pegs the Bahamian Dollar to the United States Dollar at a price of 1 BSD per USD. As an analyst for XYZ Consulting Inc., you have been asked to predict the behavior of key macroeconomic variables in the Bahamas for different policy scenarios. Using all the appropriate diagrams, your analysis must describe the Bahamian money and output markets, as well as the foreign exchange market. To perform this task, you must assume that prices are sticky: fixed in the short-run and flexible in the long-run. The scenarios are:
a) A temporary restrictive monetary policy in the Bahamas.
b) A temporary restrictive fiscal policy in the Bahamas.
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