Macroeconomics
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Author: ABEL, Andrew B., BERNANKE, Ben, CROUSHORE, Dean Darrell
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Chapter 11, Problem 9RQ
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To Explain: The predictions made by the Keynesian model on the cyclical behavioral pattern of average labor productivity.
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