In the fourth quarter of 2001, economic statistics showed the following:
Real GDP: $10,994.3 billion
Unemployment rate: 6.4%
Inflation rate : 1.5%
The conceptual variables corresponding to these data are:
Potential output: %11,144.6 billion
Natural rate of unemployment: 5.2%
Ideal inflation rate: 2.0%
a) Calculate the output gap.
b) Calculate the unemployment gap.
c) Calculate the inflation gap.
d) Calculate the output loss and inflation loss.
e) Calculate the total loss in the fourth quarter of 2001 if the relative weight on inflation loss equals 1.
f) Calculate the total loss in the fourth quarter of 2001 if the inflation loss is weighted half (0.5) of the weight on the output loss.
g) What is the value of the misery index?
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