Lesson Plan: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply



I. Aggregate Demand
- why is the AD downward sloping (revisited)?
- shifts in AD
- monetary policy
- fiscal policy
- autonomous changes in C, I or net exports
- expectations

II. Aggregate Supply
- why is the AS upward sloping (revisted)?
- money illusion
- price lags
- different ranges of the AS curve.
- shifts in AS
- what affects regular supply curves?
- labor (or other resource) market shocks
- expectations of inflation
- government regulation/policy
- monopoly power
- external shocks
- long-run AS versus short-run AS
- what is the impact of an adverse supply shock in the short and long-run?
- demand pull inflation
- cost push inflation