SRAS: the period of time when the prices of the FOPs do not change, labour price is fixed
a change in any of the factors other then price level will
result in a shift of the SRAS
A change in wage rates: government raises min wage or trade unions
A change in the cost of raw materials: for example oil
A change in the prices of imports: rise in import prices will raise costs of production
Change in indirect taxes or subsidies
Supply Side Policies
Interventionist
Investment in Human capital
Research and development: tax incentives to increase R & D, tax credits, intellectual
property rights, finance R & D development centres
Provision and maintenance of infrastructure
Direct Support for businesses/ industrial policies: improving the competitive nature of industries
through maintenance of anti-monopoly laws, helping enterprises grow,
Market Based
reduction in household income taxes
so there is more incentive to work
harder
reduction in corporate taxes: if businesses are able to keep
more profit there will be greater investment and investment
in R & D- more incentive to be efficient
Deregulation- if governments have placed many
regulations on businesses that increase costs of
production this reduces potential output- environmental
laws or working laws
Privatisation- privately owned, profit maximising firms will be more efficient
than nationalised firms will be more efficient then nationalised firms
Policies to increase competition which encourages greater efficiency