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Chapter 13: Q2. (page 282)
What are the government鈥檚 fiscal policy options for ending severe demand-pull inflation?
Reduced government spending and amplified taxes are the fiscal options to regulate demand-pull inflation.
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(For students who were assigned Chapter 11) Assume that, without taxes, the consumption schedule for an economy is as shown below:
| GDP, Billions | Consumption, Billions |
| \(100 | 120 |
| 200 | 200 |
| 300 | 280 |
| 400 | 360 |
| 500 | 440 |
| 600 | 520 |
| 700 | 600 |
Graph this consumption schedule. What is the size of the MPC?
Assume that a lump-sum (regressive) tax of \)10 billion is imposed at all levels of GDP. Calculate the tax rate at each level of GDP. Graph the resulting consumption schedule and compare the MPC and the multiplier with those of the pretax consumption schedule.
Now suppose a proportional tax with a 10 percent tax rate is imposed instead of the regressive tax. Calculate and graph the new consumption schedule, and calculate the MPC and the multiplier.
Finally, impose a progressive tax such that the tax rate is 0 percent when GDP is \(100, 5 percent at \)200, 10 percent at \(300, 15 percent at \)400, and so forth. Determine and graph the new consumption schedule, noting the effect of this tax system on the MPC and the multiplier.
Use a graph similar to Figure 13.3 to show why proportional and progressive taxes contribute to greater economic stability, while a regressive tax does not.
What happens between the public and private sectors during a "crowding out" effect?
Define the cyclically adjusted budget, explain its significance, and state why it may differ from the actual budget. Suppose the full-employment, noninflationary level of real output is GDP3 (not GDP2) in the economy depicted in Figure 13.3. If the economy is operating at GDP2 instead of GDP3, what is the status of its cyclically adjusted budget? The status of its current fiscal policy? What change in fiscal policy would you recommend? How would you accomplish that in terms of the G and T lines in the figure?
Why might economists be quite concerned if the annual interest payments on the US public debt sharply increase as a percentage of GDP?
Label each of the following scenarios as an example of a recognition lag, administrative lag, or operational lag.
To fight a recession, Congress has passed a bill to increase infrastructure spending鈥攂ut the legally required environmental-impact statement for each new project will take at least two years to complete before any building can begin.
Distracted by a war that is going badly, politicians take no notice until inflation reaches 8 percent.
Politicians recognize a sudden recession, but it takes many months of political deal making before they finally approve a stimulus bill.
To fight a recession, the president orders federal agencies to get rid of petty regulations that burden private businesses鈥攂ut the federal agencies begin by spending a year developing a set of regulations on how to remove petty regulations.
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