Macroeconomics 20th Edition by Campbell McConnell ,Stanley Brue ,Sean Flynn

Exercise 29

Depict graphically the aggregate expenditures model for a private closed economy. Now show a decrease in the aggregate expenditures schedule and explain why the decline in real GDP in your diagram is greater than the decline in the aggregate expenditures schedule. What is the term used for the ratio of a decline in real GDP to the initial drop in aggregate expenditures?