Use the Fed rule-of-thumb to predict the Fed's target for the federal funds rate for each of the following scenarios if its estimate of the neutral interest rate is 2%.   a. A recession hits the economy leading output to be 0.75% below potential output and inflation to fall to 1%.   b. An increase in consumer and business confidence pushes the economy to produce output at 2% above potential output while inflation rises to 3.5%.

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Q: According to the Taylor rule, the Fed reacts to an increase in inflation by thus stabilizing…

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Q: When the Federal Reserve increases the money supply, at a given price level the amount of output…

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Q: Which of the following are reasons why the Fed targets an inflation rate greater than 0%? Inflation…

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