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Rational expectations is an economic theory that seeks to infer the macroeconomic consequences of individuals' decisions based on all available knowledge. It assumes that individuals' actions are based on the best available economic theory and information, and concludes that government policies cannot succeed by assuming widespread systematic ...
Business portal. v. t. e. In economics, adaptive expectations is a hypothesized process by which people form their expectations about what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past. For example, if people want to create an expectation of the inflation rate in the future, they can refer to past inflation rates to infer ...
t. e. In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. [1] Deflation occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0% (a negative inflation rate). Inflation reduces the value of currency over time, but deflation increases it. This allows more goods and services to be bought than before with the same amount of ...
Redenomination. In monetary economics, redenomination is the process of changing the face value of banknotes and coins in circulation. It may be done because inflation has made the currency unit so small that only large denominations of the currency are in circulation. In such cases the name of the currency may change or the original name may ...
Inflation rates among members of the International Monetary Fund in October 2023 UK and US monthly inflation rates from January 1989 [1] [2] In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. This is usually measured using the consumer price index (CPI).
v. t. e. The Phillips curve is an economic model, named after Bill Phillips, that correlates reduced unemployment with increasing wages in an economy. [1] While Phillips did not directly link employment and inflation, this was a trivial deduction from his statistical findings.
The Lucas critique is, in essence, a negative result. It tells economists, primarily, how not to do economic analyses. The Lucas critique suggests that if we want to predict the effect of a policy experiment, we should model the "deep parameters" (relating to preferences, technology, and resource constraints) that are assumed to govern ...
Bottom row: Sargent, Fischer, Prescott. Macroeconomic theory has its origins in the study of business cycles and monetary theory. [1][2] In general, early theorists believed monetary factors could not affect real factors such as real output. John Maynard Keynes attacked some of these "classical" theories and produced a general theory that ...