Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Aggregate Supply

Aggregate Supply

  • The level of real GDP (GDPr) that firms will produce at each price level (PL)
  • Real GDP= Out put
Long run v Short run

Long Run
  • period of time where input prices are completely flexible and adjustments to change in the price level
  • in the Long run, the level of real GDP supplied is independent of the price level
Short Run
  • period of time when input prices are sticky and do not adjust to changes in the price level
  • in the Short-run, the level of real GDP supplied is directly related to the price level
Long Run Aggregate Supply (LRAS)
  • the long run aggregate supply or in the economy (analogous to ppc)
  • Because input prices are completly flexible in the long-run changes in the price level do not change firm's real profits and therefore. do NOT Change firms level of full employment
Long Run

Short Run

  • Because input prices are sticky in the shrt run, in the SRAS is upward sloping
  • an increase in  GDPr, a decrease goes to the right and left
  • The key to understand shifts in SRAS is per unit cost of production.
Per unit cost of production
total input/ total output = per unit cost of production

Changes in SRAS (decreases)
  • Determinants of SRAS (all following affect production cost
  • input prices
  • productivity
  • legal-institution environment
Input Prices

Domestic Resource Prices
  • - wages (75% of all business cost)
  • - cost of capital
  • -raw material (commodity prices)
Foreign Resource Prices
  • -Strong $ = lower foreign resources prices
  • - weak $ = higher foreign resources pries
Market Power
  • -Monopoly and cartels that control resources
  • Increases in resource prices in= SRAS <-
  • Decreases in resource prices= SRAS ->
Productivity
productivity = total out put/ total input

  • more productivity= lower unit production cost = SRAS ->
  • lower productivity = higher unit production cost= SRAS <-
Legal- Institutional Enviornment
  • Taxes ($ to gov't) on business increase per unit production cost = SRAS <-
  • Subsides ($ form gov't) to business reduce per unit productivity cost = SRAS ->
Government Regulation
  • - government regulation creates a cost of compliance = SRAS <-
  • - deregulation reduces compliance cost- SRAS-> 

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