Aggregate expenditure

Question

Refer to the table below in answering the questions which follow:

 

Will there be recessionary expenditure gap or inflationary expenditure gap if the full-employment level of output is $500 billion?  Describe the consequences. By how much aggregate expenditure in column 3 ought to change at each level of GDP to remove the gap? Explain. Illustrates the multiplier in this example?

 

 

 

Answer 1

An inflationary gap. Aggregate expenditures will be excessive, causing demand-pull inflation. Aggregate expenditures ought to fall through $20 billion (= $520 billion -$500 billion) at each level of GDP to remove the inflationary gap. The multiplier is yet 5 – the level of full employment GDP does not influence the multiplier.