Economic Environments That Have Lower Levels of Planned Aggregate Expenditure

question 15

Multiple Choice

Economic environments that have lower levels of planned aggregate expenditure for a given level of output have:

• A) PAE curves that are higher on the expenditure diagram.
• B) PAE curves that are lower on the expenditure diagram.
• C) higher levels of imports.
• D) higher levels of inventory.

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