Expectations of Higher Inflation Rates Cause a Leftward Shift in the Short-Run

question 21

True/False

Expectations of higher inflation rates cause a leftward shift in the short-run aggregate
Jsupply curve and usher in a stagflation phase of the inflation-unemploymentrelationship.

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