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What is Effective Demand? How will you derive the autonomous expenditure multiplier when price of final goods and the rate of interest are given?



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  1. The level at which the economy is in equilibrium, i.e., where aggregate demand = aggregate supply, is called effective demand.
  2. Under fixed price model, the value of planned (ex-ante) aggregate demand for final goods AD is equal to ex-ante consumption plus ex-ante investment expenditure.
            
        3.  As we know that the equilibrium level of national income in two sector model is determined where,
        AS = AD
         
        4.  Diagrammatical representation,
            
In the above mentioned diagram, aggregate demand is measured on vertical axis and national income is measured on horizontal axis. Initially, at autonomous expenditure the equilibrium level of national income OY is determined at point E. But due to increase in autonomous expenditure from  to the aggregate demand curve shifts upward from AD to A
and at the same level of national income, i.e., OY, aggregate demand is greater than aggregate supply. Production will have to be increase to meet the excess demand. Consequently, national income will increase from OY to O { Y }_{ 1 }
As, we know positive relationship exists between national income and consumption, so consumption will increase which will, increase the new aggregate demand A { D }_{ 1 }
, till we reach the new equilibrium level of output i.e.,

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