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An economy has full-employment output of 6000. Government purchases are 1680. Desired consumption
and desired investment is given by
?? ? Cd= 3000-1500?+0.2?
?? ? Id= 500-3250?
where Y is output and r is the real interest rate.
a. (5 Points)What is the real interest rate that clears the goods market? Assume that output equals full employment
output.
b. (3 Points) Compute the amount of saving, investment and consumption in equilibrium.
c. (4 Points) What would happen to the equilibrium real interest rate if government purchases fell to
1600? Increase or decrease? Explain the intuition for the change. A diagram may be useful here.