Under adaptive expectations, the short-term effect of an unanticipated shift to a more expansionary macroeconomic policy will be a

a. temporary reduction in the unemployment rate.
b. permanent reduction in the unemployment rate.
c. temporary reduction in the inflation rate.
d. permanent reduction in the inflation rate.


A

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