Long run

iDevice ikoon Long run developments
In the long run the increase in aggregate demand brings along the following effects:
  • as the unemployment is very low now, there is strong pressure on wages to rise;
  • while in the short run this pressure could be prevented, in the long run this pressure will result in increase in factor prices (including wage rates);
  • as a consequence, producers face higher factor prices and are forced to raise product prices which increases inflation;
  • higher inflation will curb total real expenditures and as a result producers reduce their production quantities;
  • it means that real GDP returns to its potential level and unemployment returns to its natural rate level.

Long run developments induced by increase in AD are shown graphically below.


Figure 6. Decrease in AD in the long run