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PART 7

MACROECONOMIC

FLUCTUATIONS 635

CHAPTER 29 INTRODUCTION TO

MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS

637

Economic Fluctuations 638

INTERNET CONNECTION: Dating Business Cycle

Peaks and Troughs 642

CASE IN POINT: Estimating the Output Costs of a

Recession 642

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Employment

Fluctuations and Trade-Offs 643

Why Economies Experience Fluctuations 643

Nominal Versus Real Wages 645

The Slow Adjustment of Nominal Wages 645

The Slow Adjustment of Prices 645

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Information and

Measuring the Business Cycle 647

Understanding Macroeconomic Fluctuations: Key

Concepts 648

Sticky Wages 649

FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUCTUATIONS 1: Sticky

Wages 649

Sticky Prices 649

e-INSIGHT: Cyclical and Structural Productivity 650

FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUCTUATIONS 2: Sticky

Prices 651

Inflation and Adjustment 652

FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUCTUATIONS 3: Short-Run

Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off 653

Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Spending 653

FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUCTUATIONS 4: Inflation,

Monetary Policy, and Spending 655

CASE IN POINT: Inflation Targeting 655

Linking the Four Key Concepts 656

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 657

CONTENTS

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