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In the news,the claim is that the Australian economy is experiencing an expansionary output gap of 4 percent.If the Okun's law coefficient is B=2 and the natural rate of unemployment is 4 percent, what is the unemployment rate? ○6% ◎2% ○-2% ○-1% ○1%

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In the news,the claim is that the Australian economy is experiencing an expansionary output gap of 4 percent.If the Okun's law coefficient is B=2 and the natural rate of unemployment is 4 percent, what is the unemployment rate? ○6% ◎2% ○-2% ○-1% ○1%

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Okun's law states that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, a country's GDP will be roughly an additional 2% lower than its potential GDP.

Given that the Australian economy is experiencing an expansionary output gap of 4 percent, this means that the actual GDP is 4% higher than the potential GDP.

Since the Okun's law coefficient is B=2, this means that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, the GDP is 2% lower.

So, if the GDP is 4% higher, this means that the unemployment rate is 2% lower (because 4% divided by 2 equals 2%).

If the natural rate of unemployment is 4 percent, then the actual unemployment rate would be 4% - 2% = 2%.

So, the unemployment rate is 2%.

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