New Keynesian Theorists Argue That

question 5

Multiple Choice

New Keynesian theorists argue that

• A) price and wage adjustments in response to policy changes often overcompensate and cause further price disruptions.
• B) prices and wages may not be free to adjust in response to policy changes.
• C) unions and big business have considerable power and often choose not to change wages and prices so as to deliberately offset policy changes enacted by the government.
• D) the Fed and the Congress rarely do what they say they will do,so one should never listen to what they say.
• E) new classical rational expectations theories about how expectations are formed are completely wrong.

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