An Unanticipated Shift to a More Expansionary Monetary Policy That

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Multiple Choice

An unanticipated shift to a more expansionary monetary policy that permanently increases the rate of inflation from 2 to 6 percent will

• A) reduce unemployment in the short run, but unemployment will return to the natural rate in the long run.
• B) reduce unemployment in the short run, but unemployment will exceed the natural rate in the long run.
• C) increase unemployment in the short run, but unemployment will return to the natural rate in the long run.
• D) exert an unpredictable impact on unemployment in the short run, but unemployment will return to the natural rate in the long run.

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