By contrast, the indirect mechanism refers to the process by which a monetary change influences spending and prices indirectly via its prior effect on the interest rate. In this process, a monetary injection first causes the rate of interest to fall, thereby stimulating business investment spending and thus exerting upward pressure on prices. More precisely, the indirect mechanism relies on two links: (1) the creation of a monetary-induced gap between the expected rate of profit on capital investment and the market rate of interest and (2) an investment response to this gap. The direct and indirect mechanisms provide the two main channels through which the dynamic price adjustment process works.