MACROECONOMICS FOR TODAY
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781337613057
Author: Tucker
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 17, Problem 10SQ
To determine
The expected inflation rate according to the adaptive expectation hypothesis.
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You're a pricing analyst for a manufacturing firm. You are tasked with predicting how average prices will change over the next
quarter to help your manager decide how to change her prices.
How might you find the best estimate of the likely inflation rate?
For the best estimate,
obtain the average forecast of many economists.
look to the financial markets.
analyze surveys of people's inflation expectations.
rely on the forecast of an eminent economist.
In this Decision Point you learned a little about inflation and inflation expectations. Apply what you learned from this decision point to the following questions.
Erica makes $25 per hour. Erica receives a 1.9%1.9% raise and inflation is 2.5%2.5% what happens to her real wage?
Her real wage:
rises by 1.9%1.9%
rises by 2.5%2.5%
falls by 0.6%0.6%.
does not change.
Rational expectations believe that
a. the government must change government spending and taxes during inflation and deflation gaps
b. people will form the most accurate possible expectations about the future that they can, using all the available information available to them
c. the federal reserve must buy and sell government securities during inflation and deflation gaps
d. the economy will never self-correct
Chapter 17 Solutions
MACROECONOMICS FOR TODAY
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