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Macroeconomics Final - Ch. 24-25
Definitions from the Ragan Lipsey Canadian Macroeconomics book
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
04/14/2011

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Phillips Curve
Definition
Originally, a relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of change of money wages. Now often drawn as a relationship between GDP and the rate of change of money wages
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Decision Lag
Definition
The period of time between perceiving some problem and reaching a decision on what to do about it
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Execution Lag
Definition
The time that it takes to put policies in place after a decision has been made
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Automatic Stabilizers
Definition
Elements of the tax-and-transfer system that reduce the responsiveness of real GDP to changes in autonomous expenditure
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Gross Tuning
Definition
The use of macroeconomic policy to stabilize the economy such that large deviations from potential output do not persist for extended periods of time
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Fine Tuning
Definition
The attempt to maintain output at its potential level by means of frequent changes in fiscal or monetary policy
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