MCQ Bank
If marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 0.9, the government purchases multiplier is----------
- A) 2
- B) 1.11
- C) 5
- D) 10
Macro-economic disequilibrium exists when aggregate supply is -------
- A) not equal to aggregate demand.
- B) equal to aggregate demand.
- C) equal to aggregate investment.
- D) not equal to aggregate investment.
The aggregate demand curve shows the relationship between the price level and the:
- A) Quantity of output supplied.
- B) Income.
- C) Quantity of output demanded.
- D) Investment.
An expansionary monetary policy shifts ------------to the---------
- A) IS curve; left.
- B) IS curve; right.
- C) LM curve; right.
- D) LM curve; left.
In the Solow growth model with technological growth, k = K/ (L×E) shows---------------per effective worker.
- A) Labor
- B) Capital
- C) Output & labor
- D) Output
In the IS-LM model, --------------in government purchases can shift ---------curve to the left.
- A) A decrease; IS
- B) A decrease; LM
- C) An increase; IS
- D) An increase; LM
Suppose the economy of China with population growth but no technological change.Which of the following will generate a higher steady state growth rate of total output?
- A) Higher birth rate.
- B) Higher inflation rate.
- C) Higher hoarding rate.
- D) Higher saving rate.
In the ------------model,capital exhibits diminishing returns. In a basic --------------- model, capital exhibits constant returns.
- A) Solow growth; Population growth
- B) Population growth; Endogenous growth
- C) Solow growth; endogenous growth
- D) Endogenous growth; Solow growth
Which of the following is a true statement?
- A) Expansionary monetary policy shifts IS curve.
- B) A negative IS shocks shifts IS curve to the left.
- C) Expansionary monetary policy increases interest rate.
- D) A negative IS shocks shifts AD curve to the right.
The LM curve is -----------
- A) Horizontal.
- B) Vertical.
- C) Positively sloped.
- D) Negatively sloped.
According to aggregate demand (AD) & aggregate supply (AS) analysis; the favorable supply shock will -------output---------inflation and increase employment.
- A) Increase; Decrease
- B) Increase; Increase
- C) Decrease; Decrease
- D) Decrease; Increase
In Solow model; production functions shows labor augmenting technological progress. Y is equal to:
- A) F (K+1, L + K)
- B) F (K, L x E)
- C) F (K+1, L+1 + E+1)
- D) F (K, L + E)
Output per worker is------------
- A) Y = y/L
- B) y = L/Y
- C) Y = Y/L
- D) y = Y/L
Economic growth occurs when there is a(n)----------------rate.
- A) Decrease in birth
- B) Increase in the death
- C) Increase in tax
- D) Increase in the economy's productive
IS curve is --------------
- A) Horizontal.
- B) Positively sloped.
- C) Vertical.
- D) Negatively sloped.
In the short run equilibrium, if output is ------------------level, then prices will fall.
- A) At the full employment
- B) Below the full employment
- C) Above the unemployment
- D) Above the natural rate of unemployment
The important determinant of the steady state ratio of capital to labor is--------
- A) Foreign aid.
- B) Output.
- C) Saving rate.
- D) Labor force.
In the Solow model with technological progress, the steady state growth rate of capital per effective worker is -----------
- A) n - g.
- B) n + g.
- C) One.
- D) Zero.
Development is impossible without domestic--------
- A) Unemployment.
- B) Debt.
- C) Inflation.
- D) Savings.
IS* curve shows the negative relationship between nominal exchange rate and ----------
- A) Price level.
- B) Output level.
- C) Real exchange rate.
- D) Interest rate.