Decrease in AS

iDevice ikoon Factors of aggregate supply
Aggregate supply could be increased by numerous reasons:
  • decrease in energy prices that decrease production costs
  • decrease in wage rates that decrease production costs
  • change in expectations: economic agents expect fastening inflation
  • government contractionary fiscal policy (i.e. raising taxes for producers)
  • central bank`s contractionary monetary policy (i.e.raisng interest rates).