Suppose That There Is a Negative Aggregate Supply Shock and the Central

question 23

Multiple Choice

Suppose that there is a negative aggregate supply shock and the central bank commits to an inflation rate target.

• A)If the commitment is credible,the public's expected inflation will remain unchanged.
• B)Credible policy produces better outcomes on both inflation and output in the short run.
• C)Policies that are not credible produce worse economic contraction.
• D)all of the above.
• E)both A and C.

Understand the concepts of independence and dependence between two events.

Differentiate between mutually exclusive events and independent events and understand their probabilities.

Understand the law of total probability and how it relates to conditional probabilities.

Understand the complement rule and its application to probability calculations.

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