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Cost-push inflation is a purported type of inflation caused by increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available. As businesses face higher prices for underlying inputs, they are forced to increase prices of their outputs.
There is no official definition of a recession, according to the IMF. [3] In the United States, a recession is defined as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."
Demand-pull stagflation theory explores the idea that stagflation can result exclusively from monetary shocks without any concurrent supply shocks or negative shifts in economic output potential. Demand-pull theory describes a scenario where stagflation can occur following a period of monetary policy implementations that cause inflation.
Disinflation is a decrease in the rate of inflation – a slowdown in the rate of increase of the general price level of goods and services in a nation's gross domestic product over time.
In economics, the demand-pull theory is the theory that inflation occurs when demand for goods and services exceeds existing supplies. [1] According to the demand pull theory, there is a range of effects on innovative activity driven by changes in expected demand, the competitive structure of markets, and factors which affect the valuation of new products or the ability of firms to realize ...
Post-Keynesian economics is a heterodox school that holds that both neo-Keynesian economics and New Keynesian economics are incorrect, and a misinterpretation of Keynes's ideas. The post-Keynesian school encompasses a variety of perspectives, but has been far less influential than the other more mainstream Keynesian schools.
Pushing on a string is a figure of speech for influence that is more effective in moving things in one direction than another – you can pull, but not push.. If something is connected to someone by a string, they can move it toward themselves by pulling on the string, but they cannot move it away from themselves by pushing on the string.
So-called demand-pull inflation may be caused by increases in aggregate demand due to increased private and government spending, [83] [84] etc. Conversely, negative demand shocks may be caused by contractionary economic policy. Supply shocks may also lead to both higher or lower inflation, depending on the character of the shock.