Assume that the expectation of a recession next year causes business investments and household consumption to fall, as well as the financing to support it. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the GDP Price Index and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?
a. The GDP
Price Index falls and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more negative (or less positive).
b. The GDP Price Index rises and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more negative (or less positive).
c. The GDP Price Index falls and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more positive (or less negative).
d. The GDP Price Index and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance remain the same.
e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
.A
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