Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a particular year is 5 percent and the actual

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Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a particular year is 5 percent and the actual rate of unemployment is 9 percent. Use Okun’s law to determine the size of the GDP gap in percentage-point terms. If the potential GDP is $500 billion in that year, how much output is being forgone because of cyclical unemployment?

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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 9780077337728

19th Edition

Authors: Campbell Mcconnell, Stanley Brue, Sean Flynn, Flynn Mcconnell Brue

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