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Transcribed Image Text:5. Expenditure Gaps
The following graph shows the planned expenditure line (AE) for an economy where current equilibrium income is $400 billion and
full-employment income is $650 billion.
REAL EXPENDITURE (Billions of dollars)
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45-degree line
The economy is experiencing
the income gap would require a $
this economy is
PE
Full-Employment Income
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INCOME (Billions of dollars)
billion
PE
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billion. Closing
in government spending. Thus the value of the multiplier for
with the absolute value of the gap equal to
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