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in the City of New Haven,
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is to think of that recession in a traditional ISLM curve,
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with the IS curve and the LM curve
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being plotted in a space determined by the level of output
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and the short term interest rate.
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In that formulation, it is clearly an IS shock.
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The level of output declines;
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the level of interest rates decline as well.
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An alternative formulation
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and a formulation that is probably more
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in the spirit of Yale economics
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is to think of the ISLM diagram as having been drawn in a space