Department of Economics
Saint Louis University
Professor: Rapach
Summer 2009
ECON 312
Intermediate Macroeconomics



Chapter Outline for “Chapter 11—Aggregate Demand II: Applying the IS-LM Model,” N. Gregory Mankiw, Macroeconomics, Sixth edition (New York, N.Y.: Worth Publishers, 2007)




11-1 Explaining Fluctuations With the IS-LM Model

How Fiscal Policy Shifts the IS Curve and Changes the Short-Run Equilibrium


Changes in Government Purchases


See Figure 11-1

Changes in Taxes


See Figure 11-2

How Monetary Policy Shifts the LM Curve and Changes the Short-Run Equilibrium


See Figure 11-3

Monetary transmission mechanism

The Interaction Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy


See Figure 11-4

CASE STUDY: Policy Analysis With Macroeconometric Models


See Table 11-1

Shocks in the IS-LM Model


CAST STUDY: The U.S. Slowdown of 2001

What Is the Fed’s Policy Instrument—The Money Supply or the Interest Rate?




11-2 IS-LM as a Theory of Aggregate Demand

From the IS-LM Model to the Aggregate Demand Curve


See Figures 11-5 and 11-6

A change in income in the IS-LM model resulting from a change in the price level represents a movement along the aggregate demand curve. A change in income in the IS-LM model for a fixed price level represents a shift in the aggregate demand curve.

The IS-LM Model in the Short Run and the Long Run


See Figure 11-7

IS: Y = C(YT) + I(r) + G

LM: M/P = L(r,Y)

Keynesian assumption: P = P1

Classical assumption: Y = YF



11-3 The Great Depression

See Table 11-2

See Table 11-2 (continued)

The Spending Hypothesis: Shocks to the IS Curve


The Money Hypothesis: Shocks to the LM Curve


The Money Hypothesis Again: The Effects of Falling Prices


The Stabilizing Effects of Deflation


Pigou effect

The Destabilizing Effects of Deflation


Debt-deflation theory

IS: Y = C(YT) + I(ipie) + G

LM: M/P = L(i,Y)

See Figure 11-8

Could the Depression Happen Again?


CASE STUDY: The Japanese Slump of the 1990s



11-4 Conclusion




Questions for Review: 1, 2, 3

Problems and Applications: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7




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