Question

Suppose the governments of two different economies, economy A and economy B, implement a permanent tax cut of the same size. Investment spending in economy A is more sensitive to changes in the interest rate than investment spending in economy B. The economies are identical in all other respects. The tax cut will have a smaller impact on aggregate demand in the economy with the

Answer 1

Available Options Are:

a) higher sensitivity to changes in the interest rate, or

b) lower sensitivity to changes in the interest rate

Answer:

Option A. Higher sensitivity to changes in the interest rate

Explanation:

The reason is that the tax cut will encourage foreign investment and this increase in Foreign Investment will increase the GDP but by small amount. However, the higher interest rate in an economy always raises additional money in an economy which companies invest to purchase the new GDP. Thus the GDP growth is highly sensitive to changes in interest rate.