Global economic activity is picking up with a cyclical recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade. World real

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Global economic activity is picking up with a cyclical recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade. World real GDP growth is expected to rise from 3.1 percent in 2016 to 3.6 percent in 2018.

a. If the IMF forecasts turn out to be correct, what would most likely happen to the output gap and unemployment in 2018?

b. What actions taken by the Bank of Canada in 2015 and 2016 would you expect to have influenced real GDP growth in 2018? Explain how those policy actions would transmit to real GDP.

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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 978-0134853307

10th Edition

Authors: Michael Parkin

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