SHORT RUN, MACROECONOMICS: In terms of the macroeconomic analysis of the aggregate market, a period of time in which some prices, especially wages, are rigid, inflexible, or otherwise in the process of adjusting. This is one of two macroeconomic time designations; the other is the long run (you might want to see short-run production, too). Short-run wage and price rigidity prevents some markets, especially resources markets and most notably labor markets, from achieving equilibrium. Wage and price rigidity and the resulting resource market imbalances are the source of the positively-sloped short-run aggregate supply curve. See also | short run | macroeconomics | aggregate market | short-run aggregate market | short-run equilibrium | product markets | financial markets | resource markets | inflexible wages | aggregate demand | short-run aggregate supply | short-run aggregate supply curve | full employment | recessionary gap | inflationary gap | long-run equilibrium | self-correction, aggregate market |
