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AP Macroeconomics 3.3.2: Sticky Prices

Explain how sticky wages and prices make aggregate-demand changes affect short-run output and unemployment.

Syllabus
Effective Fall 2025
Course
AP Macroeconomics

MOD-2.D—Explain (using graphs as appropriate) how movement along the SRAS curve implies a relationship between the price level (and… question 1

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A reduction in aggregate demand will necessarily cause an increase in unemployment in the short run when

A

nominal wages or prices are sticky downward

B

nominal wages and prices are flexible

C

the aggregate supply curve is vertical

D

the money supply grows at a constant rate

E

imports exceed exports

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