2005, Form B, Question 1 · 11 points
Open market bond sale and its effects
Graph how a central bank bond sale changes the money supply and interest rate, say whether that rate is real or nominal and when the two differ, then show the short-run effects on the AD-AS graph and the Phillips curve, and name a fiscal policy that would offset them.
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