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Aggregate Supply,

Unemployment
and Inflation
Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation

Aggregate Supply
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(a) Extreme Keynesian
AS

P
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(a) Extreme Keynesian
AS

AD
Y Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(a) Extreme Keynesian
AS

AD

AD
Y Y Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(b) Extreme Monetarist / New Classical
AS

Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(b) Extreme Monetarist / New Classical
AS

AD
Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(b) Extreme Monetarist / New Classical
AS

P
AD

AD
Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(c) Moderate view

AS
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(c) Moderate view

AS

AD
Y
Contrasting views on the aggregate supply curve:
(c) Moderate view

AS

P
P
AD

AD
Y Y
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
the microeconomic foundations
Short-run response of a profit-maximising firm
to a rise in demand

MC

P1

AR

Q Q
MR
Short-run response of a profit-maximising firm
to a rise in demand

MC

P1

AR
AR

Q MR Q
MR
Short-run response of a profit-maximising firm
to a rise in demand

MC

P2
P1

AR
AR

Q Q MR Q
MR
The short-run aggregate supply curve

AS

P
P

AD
AD
AD
Y Y Y
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
the microeconomic foundations
Long-run aggregate supply
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
the microeconomic foundations
Long-run aggregate supply
the interdependence of firms
The long-run AS curve when firms are interdependent

AS AS
AS

c
b

AD
AD
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
the microeconomic foundations
Long-run aggregate supply
the interdependence of firms
investment
Effect of investment on the long-run AS curve

AS

AD
Effect of investment on the long-run AS curve

AS
AS

b AS
d
a

AD
AD
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

Different views on the shape of the AS


curve
Short-run aggregate supply
the microeconomic foundations
Long-run aggregate supply
the interdependence of firms
investment
expectations
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
The aggregate labour market: Monetarist / New Classical analysis

AS
N
W/P

a b
W

AD

Q
The aggregate labour market: Monetarist / New Classical analysis

AS
N
W/P

a b
W

AD

Q
The aggregate labour market: Monetarist / New Classical analysis

AS
N
W/P

a W
b
W W
W

AD

Q
The aggregate labour market: Monetarist / New Classical analysis

AS
N
W/P

d−c.
a b
W c d
W W

AD

Q
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
The aggregate labour market: Monetarist / New Classical analysis

AS
N
W/P

a b
W

AD

Q
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
implications for shape of LRAS
LRAS: Keynesian models
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
implications for shape of LRAS
LRAS: Keynesian models
wage and price rigidity
Keynesian analysis of the aggregate labour market: fall in ADL

AS
N
W/P

c a b
W

AD AD

Q Q
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
implications for shape of LRAS
LRAS: Keynesian models
wage and price rigidity
hysteresis
Keynesian analysis of the aggregate labour market: hysteresis
AS
N
W/P

c a b
W
ADAD

AD AD

Q Q
Keynesian analysis of the aggregate labour market: hysteresis
AS AS
N

d e
W
W/P

c a b
W
AS

AD AD

Q Q
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
implications for shape of LRAS
LRAS: Keynesian models
wage and price rigidity
hysteresis
expectations of output changes
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

LRAS: monetarist / new classical model


flexible real wage rates
no money illusion
natural level of unemployment
implications for shape of LRAS
LRAS: Keynesian models
wage and price rigidity
hysteresis
expectations of output changes
long-run money illusion
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

AS, AD and inflation

demand-pull inflation
Demand-pull inflation

AS AS

d
P
P c
P b
P a

AD
AD
AD
Demand-pull inflation

AS AS

e
P
d
P
P c
P b
P a
AD
AD
AD
AD
Demand-pull inflation

AS
AS AS

P f
e
P
d
P
P c
P b
P a
AD
AD
AD
AD
Demand-pull inflation

AS
g AS AS
P
P f
e
P
d
P
P c
P b
P a AD
AD
AD
AD
AD
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

AS, AD and inflation

demand-pull inflation

cost-push inflation
Cost-push inflation

AS
AS
AS

d
P
c
P
b
P a
P

AD
AD
Cost-push inflation
AS
AS
AS
AS

e
P
d
P
c
P
b
P a
P

AD
AD
AGGREGATE SUPPLY

AS, AD and inflation

demand-pull inflation

cost-push inflation

what causes inflation in practice?


Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation

Expectations
Augmented Phillips
Curve
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
Incorporating expectations into a Phillips
equation

Adaptive expectations

The accelerationist theory


attempting to reduce unemployment below
the ‘natural’ level
.
The accelerationist theory of inflation
P

a
. U
IP
.
The accelerationist theory of inflation
P

d
.
IV Pe
b c .
III Pe
.
a II Pe
. U
I Pe
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
Incorporating expectations into a Phillips
equation

Adaptive expectations

The accelerationist theory


attempting to reduce unemployment below
the ‘natural’ level

the long-run Phillips curve


.
P The long-run Phillips curve

U
U
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
Incorporating expectations into a Phillips
equation

Adaptive expectations

The accelerationist theory


attempting to reduce unemployment below
the ‘natural’ level

the long-run Phillips curve

effects of deflationary policies


.
The effects of deflation
P

J
k

.
X Pe

U
.
The effects of deflation
P

J
k

l
.
m X Pe
.
XI Pe
.
XII Pe

U
.
The effects of deflation
P

J
k

l
m

a
U
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
How quickly can inflation be eliminated?
the ‘short, sharp shock’
the slow route
Explanations of stagflation
clockwise Phillips loops
. Clockwise Phillips loops
P

b
a

U U
. Clockwise Phillips loops
P

f
e

b
a

U U
. Clockwise Phillips loops
P

f
e

g
d

c
i

b J
a

U U
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
How quickly can inflation be eliminated?
the ‘short, sharp shock’
the slow route
Explanations of stagflation
clockwise Phillips loops
rightward shifts in the long-run Phillips curve
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
How quickly can inflation be eliminated?
the ‘short, sharp shock’
the slow route
Explanations of stagflation
clockwise Phillips loops
rightward shifts in the long-run Phillips curve
Policy implications of the model
EXPECTATIONS AUGMENTED PHILLIPS
CURVE
How quickly can inflation be eliminated?
the ‘short, sharp shock’
the slow route
Explanations of stagflation
clockwise Phillips loops
rightward shifts in the long-run Phillips curve
Policy implications of the model
shifting the long-run Phillips curve
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Phillips loops in the UK?
75

80
76
74 77

79
81

7 90
7
3 1 78 82
89
7
2
91 85
88 84
87 83
98 97 95
00 92 86
94
01 96
93
02 99
Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation

Rational Expectations
and the Phillips Curve
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE

Assumptions
flexible wages and prices

rational expectations

Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:


when expectations are correct
short-run vertical AS curve
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand

SRAS
P

(a) Adaptive
P b
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q Q
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand

SRAS
P
SRAS
P
c
P
(a) Adaptive
P b
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q Q
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand
LRAS
SRAS
P
SRAS
P
c
P
(a) Adaptive
P b
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q Q
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand

SRAS
P

(b) Rational
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand

SRAS
P
SRAS
P
c
P
(b) Rational
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q
The effects of an increase in aggregate demand
LRASSRAS
SRAS
P
SRAS
P
c
P
(b) Rational
expectations
P
a

AD

AD
Q
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE

Assumptions
flexible wages and prices

rational expectations

Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:


when expectations are correct
short-run vertical AS curve

short-run vertical Phillips curve


RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
How a rise in aggregate demand could cause a rise in
national output

LRAS
SRAS
P

SRAS
b P
P
P

P
a

AD
AD
AD
Q Q
How a rise in aggregate demand could cause a fall in
national output
SRAS
LRAS P

SRAS
P
P
c
P

P
a

AD
AD
AD
Q Q
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
Effects in the labour market of an underprediction of inflation

ASW / P W / P

ASW / PW / P
W/

Underprediction

AD
Q Q
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
implications for the Phillips curve
Policy implications of rational
expectations
Real business cycles
persistent shifts in aggregate supply
turning points
New classical version of short-run Phillips curves

. . . . . .
P <P P =P P >P
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
implications for the Phillips curve
Policy implications of rational
expectations
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
implications for the Phillips curve
Policy implications of rational
expectations
Real business cycles
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
implications for the Phillips curve
Policy implications of rational
expectations
Real business cycles
persistent shifts in aggregate supply
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE
PHILLIPS CURVE
Aggregate supply & the Phillips curve:
when expectations are incorrect
the goods market
the labour market
implications for the Phillips curve
Policy implications of rational
expectations
Real business cycles
persistent shifts in aggregate supply
turning points
Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation

Modern Keynesian
Views
MODERN KEYNESIAN VIEWS

Modern developments of the Keynesian


model
Growth in equilibrium unemployment
higher structural unemployment
hysteresis
The persistence of demand-deficient
unemployment
payment of efficiency wages
insider power
MODERN KEYNESIAN VIEWS

Incorporation of expectations

expansion of aggregate demand


Keynesian analysis of reflationary policies

.
P c

b Z

. II
a
P
I

U U
MODERN KEYNESIAN VIEWS

Incorporation of expectations

expansion of aggregate demand

contraction of aggregate demand


Keynesian analysis of deflationary policies

a
b
I

U U
Keynesian analysis of deflationary policies

a
b
I
c

U U
MODERN KEYNESIAN VIEWS

Incorporation of expectations

expansion of aggregate demand

contraction of aggregate demand

Keynesian criticisms of
non-intervention
Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation

Common Ground
Among Economists?
COMMON GROUND AMONG ECONOMISTS?

Short-run effects of changes in aggregate


demand

Long-run effects of changes in aggregate


demand

Role of expectations

Importance of supply-side factors

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