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Using the Phillips Curve framework, explain how there is a trade-off between unemployment and inflation. Use a graph and equation to model this trade-off. Then show with a graph and equation what happens if inflation expectations increase from, for example, 3% to 8%. Graph and explain.
Assume the natural rate of unemployment is 4%. Currently, the unemployment rate is 8%. Last period the economy experienced 5% inflation. Using the concepts of the Phillips Curve, discuss your diagnosis for the economy in the next period. Then the period after that. And successive periods into the future. Use words, graphs, and or equations to help.
Phillips Curve is the graph showing an inverse relationship between rate of inflation and rate of unemployment. Other things remaining the same, an increase in inflation rate reduces unemployment and vice versa.