Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. In real-business-cycle theory, real output can change without a change in the price level.
2. A coordination failure is said to occur when people do not reach a mutually beneficial equilibrium because they lack some way to jointly coordinate their actions to achieve it.
3. New classical economists see the economy as incapable of self-correction when disturbed and pushed away from its full-employment level of real output.
4. Rational expectations theory assumes that both product and resource markets are competitive and that wages and prices are flexible.
5. In rational expectations theory, a fully anticipated change in aggregate demand or in the price level results in no change in real output.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
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A. Between 5/8 and 4/3 units of X. B. Between 3/4 and 8/5 units of X. C. Between 4 and 8 units of X. D. Between 3 and 5 units of X.
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