As an elected official, you have been informed that real GDP is below its potential and that action should be taken to encourage economic growth and bring the economy to its long-run equilibrium. The marginal propensity to consume is 0.6, and the amount of new government spending is $700 billion. What is the multiplier? Compute this to the first place beyond the decimal.

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Answer:

2.5

Explanation:

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Marginal propensity to consume = 0.6

The computation of multiplier is shown below:-

Multiplier = 1 ÷ (1 - Marginal propensity to consume)

= 1 ÷ (1 - 0.6)

= 1 ÷ 0.4

= 2.5

Therefore for computing the multiplier we simply applied the above formula with the help of dividing 1 by marginal propensity to consume and after the result we divide the 1 by the result.