SELF-CORRECTION, INFLATIONARY GAP: The automatic process through which the aggregate market achieves long-run equilibrium by eliminating an inflationary gap created by short-run equilibrium. With an inflationary gap short-run equilibrium real production is greater than full-employment real production, meaning resource markets have shortages, and in particular labor is overemployed. Self-correction is the process in which these temporary imbalances are eliminated through flexible prices as the aggregate market achieves long-run equilibrium. The key to this process is shifts of the short-run aggregate supply curve caused by changes in wages and other resource prices. The long-run result is lower wages and a decrease in short-run aggregate supply. See also | inflationary gap | aggregate market | short-run aggregate market | long-run aggregate market | short-run aggregate supply curve | aggregate supply determinants | wage | resource prices | resource prices | self-correction, recessionary gap | self-correction, market | full employment | surplus | shortage | inflation | expansion | business cycle |
