How can fiscal and/or monetary policies be used to take us out of inflationary and recessionary gaps?
In case of a recessionary gap, We will need an expansionary fiscal policy or monetary policy to increase the aggregate demand and close the recessionary gap. The government will decrease the taxes and increase the government expenditure. The Fed will decrease the reserve requirement, decrease the discount rate and purchase the bonds in the open market.
In case of a inflationary gap the government will use contractionary gap to decrease the aggregate demand. It will increase the tax and cut the expenditure and Fed will increase the discount rate and increase the reserve requirement and buy bonds in the market.
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