A Movement Up Along a Short Run Phillips Curve to an Unemployment

question 78

True/False

A movement up along a short run Phillips Curve to an unemployment rate below the natural rate of unemployment will tend to shift the Phillips Curve up, once expectations adjust; a movement down along a short run Phillips Curve to an unemployment rate above the natural rate of unemployment will tend to shift the Phillips Curve down once expectations adjust.

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Trade Deficits

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National Income

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