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So here, let's talk about fiscal policy.
00:03
So for one, a recessionary gap means that we want to increase economic activity, right? so what i would do here is increase government spending, right? you spend more, you are going to boost y, and you are going to close the gap, right? so you increase government spending.
00:23
If we illustrate that in two, let's draw an aggregate demand, aggregate supply graph, price.
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Let's imagine we have a recessionary gap.
00:34
So here is my potential.
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Here is where i actually am, right, between my aggregate demand and aggregate supply.
00:43
And here is my recessionary gap.
00:49
Remember that aggregate demand is c plus i plus g plus nx.
00:56
We are taking this, we are dragging it upwards, and so we are going to shift aggregate demand out.
01:03
So here's going to be my new aggregate demand curve, and the economy is going to move from 0 to 1, so we're going up this direction in response to the increase in aggregate demand, right? and here the gap is of course closed because we have output is equal to potential output.
01:26
So we could cut g.
01:28
But we could also raise taxes...