Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Fiscal policy to be effective

Hence, for fiscal policy to be effective (i.e. give rise to a big change
in T):


Md must be sensitive to changes in interest rate – the responsiveness of the demand for money to interest rate determines the slope of the LM curve; and

Investment must be interest inelastic – the responsiveness of investment to a change in interest rate determines the slope of the IS curve .

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