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Unit 3: Aggregate Supply

Aggregate Supply: Level of real GDP  (GDPr) that firms will produce at each price level (PL)
Long Run: period of time where input prices are completely flexible and adjust to changes in price level ; level of real GDP supplied is independent of price level
Short Run: period of time where input prices are sticky and do not adjust to changes in the price level ; level of real GDP supplied is directly related to price level
Long Run Aggregate Supply (LRAS): marks the level of full employment in economy (analogous to PPC)
Short Run Aggregate Supply (SRAS): input prices are sticky in the short run, SRAS is upwards sloping.

Changes in SRAS: increase is shift to the right & decrease is shift to the left ; key to understanding is per unit cost of production  ; formula: per unit production cost = total input cost / total output

Determinants of SRAS  (all of following affect until production cost):
  1. input prices: domestic resource prices (wages <75% of all business costs>, cost of capital, raw materials <commodity prices>), foreign resource prices (strong $ = lower & weak $ = higher), market power (monopolies and cartels that control resources, control price of those resources), increase in resource prices SRAS left & decrease in resource prices in SRAS right
  2. productivity: total output / total input , more productivity = lower till unit production cost = SRAS right & lower productivity = higher unit production cost = SRAS left
  3. legal institutional environment: *taxes and subsidies - taxes ($ to govt) on business increase per up production cost = SRAS left ; subsidies ($ from govt) to business reduce per unit production cost = SRAS right /// *government regulation: government regulation creates a cost of compliance = SRAS left ; deregulation reduces compliance costs = SRAS right
The AS/AD Model: equilibrium of AS and AD determines current output (GDPr) and the price level (PL)
Full Employment: equilibrium exists where AD intersects SRAS and LRAS at same point
Recessionary Gap: exists when equilibrium occurs below full employment output
Inflationary Gap: exists when equilibrium occurs beyond full employment output
*pie symbol = inflation & u = unemployment

Ranges:
  1. Horizontal or Keynesian: lots of unemployed resources creates recession or depression; includes only levels of real GDP that are less than full employment output l
  2. Intermediate: resources are getting closer to full employment level which creates pressure on wages and prices
  3. Classical or Vertical: real GDP at level with unemployment at full employment level and with any increase in demand will result an increase in prices; economy unable to produce anymore goods and services for sustainable period of time

Investment: money spent or expenditures on new plants (factories), capital equipment  (machinery), technology (hardware and software), new homes, inventories (goods sold by producers)

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