MCQ Bank
The theory regarding to the tradeoff between unemployment and inflation is established by:
- A) Milton Friedman
- B) Joseph Schumpeter
- C) W.A. Phillips
- D) John Maynard Keynes
Consider the closed economy,where total tax collection is 50,000, investment 80,000 and government spending 20,000.what are injections into the circular flow of income?
- A) 100,000
- B) 120,000
- C) 20,000
- D) 80,000
change in expenditure is less but change in income is higher due to
- A) Paradox of thrift
- B) Inelastic demand
- C) Accelerator
- D) Multiplier effect
The percentage annual increase in average price level is:
- A) The rate of employment
- B) The rate of deflation
- C) The rate of unemployment
- D) The rate of inflation
Which of the following is a benefit of real economic growth to a society?
- A) The society is less able to satisfy new wants.
- B) Everyone gets equal income.
- C) The burden of scarcity increases.
- D) The standard of living increases.
Investment expenditures are expenditures made by the __________ sector:
- A) Business
- B) Household
- C) Foreign
- D) Government
According to the quantity theory of money, if there is inflation, what must have caused it?
- A) Higher oil prices
- B) An increase in the money supply
- C) Increased velocity
- D) Higher budget deficits
The exchange rate is also known as
- A) Forex rate
- B) Forez rate
- C) Forep rate
- D) Falez rate
Let the marginal propensity to consume equals 0.75. The value of multiplier in this case is:
- A) 1.33.
- B) 4.
- C) 0.25.
- D) 2.33.
Which of the following is most likely to occur in an economy if aggregate expenditures are less than aggregate output?
- A) Inflationary gap
- B) Hyperinflation
- C) Deflationary gap
- D) Saving investment gap
Resource wastage is high, when inflation is
- A) High
- B) Low
- C) Medium
- D) Controlled
From 2018 to 2019, change in disposable income is Rs. 630, 000 and change in consumption is Rs. 450,000. What is the value of marginal propensity to consume?
- A) 1.4
- B) 0.71
- C) 0.4
- D) 1.71
Suppose the consumption function is C = 200 + 0.6 Yd. If the value of disposable income is Rs. 10000 then total consumption equals:
- A) Rs. 6200.
- B) Rs. 5800.
- C) Rs. 6000.
- D) Rs. 6400.
In Keynesian economics, a deflationary gap occurs when aggregate expenditures are:
- A) Equal to aggregate production.
- B) Greater than aggregate production.
- C) Less than aggregate production.
- D) Undetermined.
A rise in government expenditure leads to a multiple rise in national income due to:
- A) Accelerator.
- B) Inelastic demand.
- C) Inelastic supply.
- D) Multiplier effect.
Which of the following events shifts the short-run aggregate supply curve to the right?
- A) An increase in price expectations
- B) A decrease in the money supply
- C) A drop in oil prices
- D) An increase in government spending on military equipment
Personal income is the income:
- A) Minus indirect taxes.
- B) Divided by the total number of population.
- C) Received by individuals during a given year.
- D) Received by government for spending during a given year.
The price at which firms sells its final output to the consumers is called:
- A) Producer price
- B) Market price
- C) Factor price
- D) Consumer price
According to the Classical economists, those who are not working:
- A) Have chosen not to work at the market wage.
- B) Have given up looking for a job, but would accept a job at the current wage if one were offered to them.
- C) Are unable to find a job at the current wage rate.
- D) Are too productive to be hired at the current wage.
According to whom inflation and unemployment are opposite sides of the same coin
- A) Adam Smith
- B) Phillips
- C) Marcus
- D) Keynes