In reporting on real GDP growth in the second quarter of 2015, an article in the Wall

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In reporting on real GDP growth in the second quarter of 2015, an article in the Wall Street Journal noted that the 2.3 percent annual growth rate "would have been stronger if it hadn't been for companies drawing down inventories."
a. If companies are "drawing down inventories," is aggregate expenditure likely to have been larger or smaller than GDP?
b. Assume that the reduction in inventories was unplanned. What would you expect to happen to production in the future following an unplanned reduction in inventories?
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Economics

ISBN: 978-0134106243

6th edition

Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard

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