Income and Expenditure - Consumer Spending - Shifts of the Aggregate Consumption Function

3 important questions on Income and Expenditure - Consumer Spending - Shifts of the Aggregate Consumption Function

What 2 principles shift the aggregate consumption function? And when does it not shift?

  • When other things equal changes in Expected disposable income and  changes in aggregate wealth occur the consumption function shifts.
  • but this could be any thing other than the disposable income itself
  • when the disposable income changes the consumption function does not shift

What happens when Y<AE

INVENTOR WILL FALL TO BRING Y=AE again

For a given fluctuation in autonomous expenditure, economies with higher lump-sum income tax will experience:

Some business cycle fluctuations in real GDP but the fluctuations are independent of the lump-sum tax

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