Fiscal Policy: Recessionary vs Expansionary Policy Complete the following exercises. 1. Describe a policy measure the government can use to close a recessionary gap. 2. Illustrate your response to question 1 in a graph. 3. Describe a policy measure the government can use to close an inflationary gap. 4. Illustrate your response to question 3 in a graph.

The graph below depicts an economy where a decline in aggregate demand has caused a recession. Assume the government decides to conduct fiscal policy by changing toxes to reduce the burden of this recession. Fiscal Policy 140 LRAS AS 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 AD 60 50 AD, 40 80 160 240 320 400 480 560 640 720 800 Real GDP (billions of dollars) Instructions: Enter your answer as a whole number. If you are entering a negative number include a minus sign. a. How much does oggregate demanci need to change to restore the economy to its long-run equilbrilum? billion b. If the MPC is 0.667, how much do taxes need to change to shift aggregate demand by the amount you found in part a? billion Suppose instead that the MPC is 0.5. C. How much does aggregate demand and taxes need to change to restore the economy to its long-run equilibrium? Aggregate demand needs to change by $ [ billion and taxes need to change by $ billion. Price Level

Hide student question Time Left : Determine whether each of the following is an example of a situation in which a direct expenditure offset to fiscal policy occurs. a. In an effort to help rejuvenate the nation's railroad system, a new government agency buys unused track, locomotives, and passenger and freight cars, many of which private companies would otherwise have purchased and put into regular use. b. The government increases its expenditures without raising taxes. To cover the resulting budget deficit, it borrows more funds from the private sector, thereby pushing up the market interest rate and discouraging private planned investment spending. c. The government finances the construction of a classical music museum that otherwise would never have received private funding.

economic The hypothetical information in the following table shows what the situation will be in 2016 if the government does not use fiscal policy: table (image) a. If the government wants to move real GDP to its potential level in 2016, should it use expansionary policy or contractionary policy? In your answer make sure you explain whether the government should be increasing or decreasing government purchases and taxes.b. If the government is successful in moving real GDP to its potential level in 2016, state whether each of the following will be higher, lower or the same as it would have been if they had taken no action: i. Real GDP ii. Potential GDP iii.The inflation rate iv.The unemployment rate.c. Draw a dynamic aggregate demand and aggregate supply graph to illustrate your answer. Make sure that your graph contains LRAS curves for 2015 and 2016; SRAS curves for 2015 and 2016; AD curves for 2015 and 2016, with and without fiscal policy action; and equilibrium real GDP and the…