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ACTION LAG: In the context of economic policies, a part of the implementation lag involving the time it takes for appropriate policies to be launched once they have been agreed to by policy makers. Another part of the implementation lag is the decision lag. For fiscal policy, this involves appropriating funds to government agencies (for government spending) or changing the tax code (for taxes) For monetary policy, this involves the buying and selling government securities in the open market. The action lag is usually shorter for monetary policy than fiscal policy.

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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule Page: 6 of 24

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Tradeoff between the production of jogging shoes and clock calibrators.
  • Resources are limited: Producing more of one good necessarily means producing less of the other.
  • This tradeoff represents the concept of opportunity cost.
  • Opportunity cost tells us how many pairs of jogging shoes are given up to produce each additional quartz clock calibrator.
  • Opportunity cost of first calibrator is 5 pairs of shoes.
  • Opportunity cost of second calibrator is 5 pairs of shoes.

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AGGREGATE DEMAND INCREASE, SHORT-RUN AGGREGATE MARKET

A shock to the short-run aggregate market caused by an increase in aggregate demand, resulting in and illustrated by a rightward shift of the aggregate demand curve. An increase in aggregate demand in the short-run aggregate market results in an increase in the price level and an increase in real production. The level of real production resulting from the shock can be greater or less than full-employment real production.

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