5. Consider the Phillips curve πt = πt-1 – 0.5(ut – 0.01). a) What is the natural rate of unemployment? Graph the short-run and long-run relationships between inflation and unemployment? b) How much unemployment is necessary to reduce inflation by 3%? Compute the sacrifice ratio. Show your work. c) Do flexible exchange rates permit a country to pick its own unemployment-inflation trade-off target?

5. Consider the Phillips curve πt = πt-1 – 0.5(ut – 0.01). a) What is the natural rate of unemployment? Graph the short-run and long-run relationships between inflation and unemployment? b) How much unemployment is necessary to reduce inflation by 3%? Compute the sacrifice ratio. Show your work. c) Do flexible exchange rates permit a country to pick its own unemployment-inflation trade-off target?

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