About Me

My photo
Oxford, United Kingdom
Friendly,Nice and...Hardworking...maybe???...(^_^)...Kekekekeke...

Wednesday 22 April 2009

Why does the aggregate demand curve slope down?

Aggregate demand (AD) is a curve showing the total amount of goods and services (real GDP) that will be purchased at different price levels.
As in the AD,AS diagram u always can see that AD curve slopes down.It has a negative slope.Why???

Three explanations for the negative slope are:
1. Interest rate effect
2. Real balance effect
3. Foreign purchases effect

  • Interest rate:
Well, as price level rises so therefore the money supply will fall.Bcause real money supply falls,this leads to an increase in the interest rate.As interest rate rises, investment spending falls because of the increased cost of borrowing to finance investment. As investment falls, aggregate expenditure (AE) falls, in turn leading to a fall in real GDP (or Y).
  • Real blance effect:
Real balance effect (also known as real wealth effect or real money balances effect):
It is proved through consumption and expenditure. As price level rises, purchasing power of money balances falls. As our real wealth falls, we will cut back on our consumption spending,which means consumption will decrease.Therefore,this will leads to a decrease in Real GDP in the economy.
  • Foreign purchases effect:
    It is applicable only to open economies with foreign trade being introduced into our explanation. With an increase in domestic price level relative to those of trading partners, domestic consumers will spend less on domestically produced goods and services and more on imports (M). Also, foreigners will buy less of our exports (X). The increase in M and decrease in X (that is, a decrease in net exports) means a decrease in real GDP.
To explain why AD slopes down,we can prove by an increase in the price level leads to a decrease in the Real GDP,therefore,AD slopes down to show that correlation.

3 comments:

Hai Long said...

dmm con chó

Elvi said...

'as price level rises so therefore the money supply will fall'..why so? i still can't fully understand this topic((

Mr.Lex said...

Well,the real money supply=nominal money supply/Price level
So as I understand,the price level in our country rises,there fore,other countries will buy less our exports or our domestic products.So that,the demand for our currency will decrease,and the money supply will fall.Then a country will have to increase interest rate to encourage other savings from other countries in our domestic banks,this will increase the demand for our currency and the exchange rate will rise.