If the Fed responded to an adverse supply shock by increasing the growth rate of the money supply and maintained the higher growth rate, what would eventually happen to the short-run Phillips curve? Why?


It would shift right because expected inflation would rise.

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Which of the following will cause an increase in the rental cost/user cost of capital?

A) The rate of depreciation increases. B) The real interest rate decreases. C) The expected profit from the machine decreases. D) all of the above E) none of the above

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