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Economics

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.............. mainly gives rise to the central problems of an economy.

  1. The problem of allocation of resources

  2. The problem of efficient use of resources

  3. The problem of distribution of the goods produced

  4. The problem of full employment of resources


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

It implies what goods are to be produced and what not and in which quantities these goods are to be produced.

Which of the following is most likely to benefit a debtor?

  1. Unanticipated deflation

  2. Anticipated deflation

  3. Unanticipated inflation

  4. Anticipated inflation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Anticipated deflation is when nominal rates fall.

A politician proposes reducing business taxes, a move she says will encourage risk taking entrepreneurship. The proposed cut in business taxes is intended to stimulate the economy mainly through

  1. an increase in aggregate supply

  2. a decrease in aggregate supply

  3. a decrease in the aggregate demand

  4. an increase in aggregate demand


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Aggregate Supply (AS) measures the volume of goods and services produced within the economy at a given overall price level. There is a positive relationship between aggregate supply and the general price level.

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

  1. Normal goods have a positive income elasticity of demand.

  2. Inferior goods have a negative income elasticity of demand.

  3. Necessity has an income elasticity of demand that is less than one.

  4. Luxury goods have an income elasticity of demand that is equal to one.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises and is a contrast to a necessity good for which demand is not related to income.

Consumption possibility frontier is the same as

  1. the indifference curve

  2. the budget line

  3. the production possibility frontier

  4. the demand curve


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A budget is a list of all planned expenses which uses a budget line to illustrate the trading.

The empirically fitted relationship between the rate of change of money wages and rate of unemployment is known as

  1. Baumol's Hypothesis

  2. Keynesian Model

  3. Friedman's Model

  4. Phillip's Curve


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In economics, the Phillips curve is a historical inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation in an economy. Stated simply, lower the unemployment in an economy, the higher the rate of inflation. While it has been observed that there is a stable short run trade off between unemployment and inflation, this has not been observed in the long run.

Which of the following principles is applied to redress the imbalance between distribution and welfare?

  1. Principle of taxation

  2. Principle of compensation

  3. Principle of effective demand

  4. Principle of supply


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

According to the compensation principle, if the prospective gainers could compensate any prospective losers and leave no one worse off, the other state is to be selected . An example of a compensation principle is the Pareto criterion in which a change in states entails that such compensation is not merely feasible but required.

The central problem in economics is of

  1. production

  2. assets allocation

  3. money

  4. scarcity


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Scarcity occurs when people want more of something than it is already available. In economics, scarcity forces people to make choices, as everyone cannot have everything. Without scarcity, an economy cannot exist.

In a planned or command economy, all the economic decisions are taken by the

  1. consumers

  2. voters

  3. government

  4. workers


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It is a body of people that sets and administers public policy and exercises executive, political and sovereign power through customs, institutions and laws within a state.

The total demand of goods and services in an economy is known as

  1. aggregate demand

  2. national demand

  3. gross national product

  4. economy wide demand


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Aggregate planned expenditure for goods and services in an economy is = C + I + G + (X-M).

A graph showing all the combinations of goods and services, that can be produced if all of the society's resources are used efficiently, is a

  1. capital consumption frontier

  2. circular flow diagram

  3. production possibility curve

  4. Lorenz curve


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It describes income distribution.

A student chooses to study because the marginal benefit is greater than the ________ cost.

  1. expected

  2. average

  3. total

  4. marginal


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The marginal cost of an additional unit of the output is the cost of the additional inputs needed to produce that output.

Consider the following assets:

  1. Cash held by public
  2. Equity shares of banks
  3. Deposits of banks
  4. RBI bonds

Which of the above assets are considered as part of money supply?

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 2 and 3

  4. 1, 3 and 4


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Shares having a claim to participate in the whole range of annual profits remaining to a company after it has satisfied all charges and met any fixed preferential dividends, and having a right to participate in surplus assets in a winding up.

Which of the following is not a factor of production?

  1. Labour

  2. Bank loan

  3. Capital

  4. Land


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A loan taken from a bank has to be repaid with interest on or before a fixed date.  

The study of inflation is part of

  1. micro-economics

  2. descriptive economics

  3. normative economics

  4. macro-economics


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Macroeconomics examines economy wide phenomena such as changes in unemployment, national income, rate of growth, gross domestic product and price levels.

The public sector includes

  1. investors owning companies

  2. government ownership of assets

  3. market forces of supply and demand

  4. all trades via barter


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The government should concentrate on reducing unemployment.

Opportunity cost is

  1. the cost incurred in the past before we make a decision about what to do in the future

  2. the additional benefit of buying an additional unit of a product

  3. that which we forego when we make a decision

  4. a cost that cannot be avoided, regardless of what is done in the future


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It is what will we gain in future to the present decision.

Inflation is

  1. a decrease in the overall price level

  2. a decrease in the overall level of economic activity

  3. an increase in the overall level of economic activity

  4. an increase in the overall price level


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Inflation means a period of rapid rise in prices.

Recession is

  1. a period of declining unemployment

  2. a period of rapidly declining prices

  3. a period of declining demand

  4. a period during which aggregate output declines


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A period during which the aggregate output declines.

If the product is an inferior good, then

  1. demand is inversely related to the income

  2. demand is inversely related to the price

  3. demand is directly related to the price

  4. demand is inversely related to the price of substitutes


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

With inferior goods less is bought when income increases.

The sacrifice involved when a particular course of action is chosen is called

  1. an alternative

  2. opportunity cost

  3. consumer cost

  4. producer cost


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The sacrifice involved when you choose a particular course of action is called the opportunity cost.

The circular flow of goods and income shows the relationship between

  1. income and money

  2. wages and salaries

  3. goods and services

  4. firms and households


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Firms and households collectively circulate the flow of goods and services.

In a free market system, the amount of goods and services that a single household gets depends on

  1. the wage and interest income

  2. income and wealth

  3. wealth

  4. income


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Income and wealth are linked together.

Macroeconomics deals with

  1. the behaviour of the electronics industry

  2. economic aggregates

  3. the behaviour of the firms

  4. the activities of individual units


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Aggregate economic analysis is concerned with the issues related to macroeconomic issues, such as, gross domestic product, national income, inflation, etc.

Periods of less than full employment correspond to

  1. the points on the production possibility curve

  2. either the points inside or outside the production possibility curve

  3. points outside the production possibility curve

  4. points inside the production possibility curve


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Graphical representation of the alternative combinations of the amounts of two goods or services that an economy can produce by transferring resources from one good or service to the other. This curve helps in determining what quantity of a non essential good or a service an economy can afford to produce without jeopardizing the required production of an essential good or service.

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