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Accelerator Effect and Economic Growth - Chains of Reasoning
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Last updated 30 Jan 2022
Here is a short video building logical chains of analytical reasoning for a question on the accelerator effect.
Question: Analyse how the accelerator process is likely to affect economic growth.
Example of a logical analytical chain of reasoning
- A positive accelerator effect occurs when an increase in the rate of growth of consumer demand leads to a rise in planned capital investment by businesses.
- For example, rising demand for streaming services might lead businesses such as Netflix and Disney+ to increase investment in server hardware.
- Business will increase capital spending because they need extra supply capacity and want to make higher profits in the long run.
- As a result of an increase in net investment, the size of a country's capital stock will rise and the amount of capital per worker employed will also grow.
- This will lead to an expansion of a nation's productive potential especially if higher investment also drives an improvement in labour productivity (efficiency).
- This will then contribute to an increase in the long-run trend economic growth of a country as shown by an outward shift of LRAS and/or an outward move in the PPF.
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