Suppose that during 2009, the actual real GDP of Chile was 3.5 billion pesos at the same time the potential GDP was 3.4 billion pesos. What sort of equilibrium existed in Chile?
What will be an ideal response?
Chile's actual real GDP exceeded its potential GDP, so Chile was in an above-full-employment, inflationary gap equilibrium.
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