Understanding Real GDP Fluctuations Over the Business Cycle

Which part of real GDP fluctuates most over the course of the business cycle?

a. consumption expenditures

b. government expenditures

c. investment expenditures

Answer:

c. investment expenditures

Explanation:

The reason for this is that during business cycles investors gain trust in the economy during a boom and invest a lot and during a recession they lose trust in the economy and decrease their investment by a lot, where as a lot of consumption like food, medicine, petrol etc remains mostly unaffected by changes in business cycle. Also government spending does not fluctuate a lot during the course of a business cycle because government spending is either long term like development projects.

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