MCQ Bank
Inverse relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate is explained by:
- A) Price adjustment curve.
- B) Phillips Curve.
- C) Aggregate demand curve.
- D) Okun law.
Data that is recorded in money terms, unadjusted for inflation is called:
- A) Real data
- B) Nominal data
- C) Primary data
- D) Secondary data
The most commonly used index to calculate the inflation is:
- A) Wholesale Price Index (WPI)
- B) Producer Price Index (PPI)
- C) Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- D) GDP Deflator
Consider a closed economy where total savings equals Rs. 70000, investment is Rs. 90000 and total tax collection is Rs. 35000. What are leakages into the circular flow of income?
- A) Rs.125, 000
- B) Rs.160, 000
- C) Rs.105, 000
- D) Rs.195, 000
Falling inflation means that price level is rising at a(n):
- A) Fluctuating rate.
- B) Decreasing rate.
- C) Increasing rate.
- D) Constant Rate.
Macroeconomics equilibrium in a Keynesian sense obtains when:
- A) Total leakages = Total expenditures
- B) Total injections = Total investment
- C) Total injections = Total income
- D) Total injections = Total leakages
Suppose the consumption function is C = 450 + 0.5 Yd. What is marginal propensity to consume?
- A) 1.5
- B) 50
- C) 0.5
- D) 5
GDP Deflator is calculated as:
- A) Real GDP/Nominal GDP
- B) Nominal income/Real income
- C) Nominal interest rate/Real interest rate
- D) Nominal GDP/Real GDP
The output level in long run is determined by:
- A) Money supply.
- B) Aggregate demand.
- C) Aggregate supply.
- D) The government.
The saving function is:
- A) The ratio of a change in planned saving to a change in disposable income.
- B) The level of planned saving at different levels of disposable income.
- C) The level of planned saving for every change in disposable income.
- D) The ratio of total saving to total disposable income.
In Keynesian economics, an inflationary gap results if aggregate expenditures are:
- A) Undetermined.
- B) Greater than aggregate production.
- C) Less than aggregate production.
- D) Equal to aggregate production.
Suppose the consumption function is C = 350 + 0.5 Yd. If the value of disposable income is Rs. 13000 then total consumption equals:
- A) Rs. 6950.
- B) Rs. 6150.
- C) Rs. 6450.
- D) Rs. 6850.
Suppose the overall production of goods and services increases in a country because of technological improvement. This will shift:
- A) Aggregate demand curve to the right.
- B) Aggregate demand curve to the left.
- C) Aggregate supply curve to the right.
- D) Aggregate supply curve to the left.
Gross National Product (GNP) is:
- A) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) minus depreciation.
- B) Income from foreign investments.
- C) National income discounted by the GDP deflator.
- D) Net National Product (NNP) plus depreciation.
According to the quantity theory of money, which of the following is TRUE for the equation MV = PQ?
- A) P rises as V falls, other things constant
- B) M has no effect on the price level
- C) M is nominal money supply
- D) Q is the real output level
Rising inflation means that price level is rising at a(n):
- A) Constant Rate.
- B) Decreasing rate.
- C) Fluctuating rate.
- D) Increasing rate.
The relationship between saving and income is known as the:
- A) Consumption function.
- B) Disposable income.
- C) Saving function.
- D) 45-degree line.
According to Keynes inflation is the result of
- A) Excessive Supply
- B) Excessive Demand
- C) Low level of pricing
- D) Alternative Absolution
In Keynesian economics, if aggregate expenditures are less than aggregate output then:
- A) Aggregate output increases.
- B) Inventories decrease.
- C) Employment decreases.
- D) The price level rises.
The principle that states that a change in investment causes a magnified change in income is termed as the:
- A) Multiplier effect.
- B) Water paradox.
- C) Saving theorem.
- D) Paradox of thrift.