the underlying rate of inflation to accelerate because the actual inflation rate exceeds the underlying rate of inflation.

.prices will decline because there is an excess supply of goods (neoclassical assumption).

output to decline because there is an excess supply of goods (Keynesian assumption).

consumer spending to decline because goods are more expensive

inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon

big inflations will be stopped by big recession

money illusion is the source of the unemployment in the long-run

demand policies cannot move the actual unemployment rate permanently away from its equilibrium level

The economy is dichotomized in the short-run because of the Taylor rule

Wage-negotiations are subject to money illusion so that real wages would fall to an unsustainable level

Even if we could reduce unemployment to 0% today at a cost of an increase in inflation of 5%, there is no guarantee that underlying inflation in the economy would remain unchanged

The battle of the mark-ups determines wages and prices only so long as there is no supply shock

The OPEC cartel for oil prices collapses due to political disagreements.

Financial crisis results in a freezing of interbank lending

Drought destroys half of a country’s crops

Tax for energy use introduced to help reduce global emissions

that in the long-run the price level is assumed perfectly flexible

that under fixed exchange rates, the money supply is exogenous

.that the marginal propensity to import is assumed to be a constant fraction of GDP

.the principle of long-run PPP