Economics
Practice fundamental economics concepts including micro and macroeconomics principles such as scarcity, supply and demand, production possibility, inflation, money supply, and economic systems.
Questions
.............. mainly gives rise to the central problems of an economy.
- The problem of allocation of resources
- The problem of efficient use of resources
- The problem of distribution of the goods produced
- The problem of full employment of resources
Which of the following is most likely to benefit a debtor?
- Unanticipated deflation
- Anticipated deflation
- Unanticipated inflation
- Anticipated inflation
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
- an increase in aggregate supply
- a decrease in aggregate supply
- a decrease in the aggregate demand
- an increase in aggregate demand
Which one of the following statements is not correct?
- Normal goods have a positive income elasticity of demand.
- Inferior goods have a negative income elasticity of demand.
- Necessity has an income elasticity of demand that is less than one.
- Luxury goods have an income elasticity of demand that is equal to one.
Consumption possibility frontier is the same as
- the indifference curve
- the budget line
- the production possibility frontier
- the demand curve
The empirically fitted relationship between the rate of change of money wages and rate of unemployment is known as
- Baumol's Hypothesis
- Keynesian Model
- Friedman's Model
- Phillip's Curve
Which of the following principles is applied to redress the imbalance between distribution and welfare?
- Principle of taxation
- Principle of compensation
- Principle of effective demand
- Principle of supply
The central problem in economics is of
- production
- assets allocation
- money
- scarcity
In a planned or command economy, all the economic decisions are taken by the
- consumers
- voters
- government
- workers
The total demand of goods and services in an economy is known as
- aggregate demand
- national demand
- gross national product
- economy wide demand
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
- capital consumption frontier
- circular flow diagram
- production possibility curve
- Lorenz curve
A student chooses to study because the marginal benefit is greater than the ________ cost.
- expected
- average
- total
- marginal
Consider the following assets:
- Cash held by public
- Equity shares of banks
- Deposits of banks
- RBI bonds
Which of the above assets are considered as part of money supply?
- 1 and 2
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 3
- 1, 3 and 4
Which of the following is not a factor of production?
- Labour
- Bank loan
- Capital
- Land
The study of inflation is part of
- micro-economics
- descriptive economics
- normative economics
- macro-economics
The public sector includes
- investors owning companies
- government ownership of assets
- market forces of supply and demand
- all trades via barter
Opportunity cost is
- the cost incurred in the past before we make a decision about what to do in the future
- the additional benefit of buying an additional unit of a product
- that which we forego when we make a decision
- a cost that cannot be avoided, regardless of what is done in the future
Inflation is
- a decrease in the overall price level
- a decrease in the overall level of economic activity
- an increase in the overall level of economic activity
- an increase in the overall price level
Recession is
- a period of declining unemployment
- a period of rapidly declining prices
- a period of declining demand
- a period during which aggregate output declines
If the product is an inferior good, then
- demand is inversely related to the income
- demand is inversely related to the price
- demand is directly related to the price
- demand is inversely related to the price of substitutes
The sacrifice involved when a particular course of action is chosen is called
- an alternative
- opportunity cost
- consumer cost
- producer cost
The circular flow of goods and income shows the relationship between
- income and money
- wages and salaries
- goods and services
- firms and households
In a free market system, the amount of goods and services that a single household gets depends on
- the wage and interest income
- income and wealth
- wealth
- income
Macroeconomics deals with
- the behaviour of the electronics industry
- economic aggregates
- the behaviour of the firms
- the activities of individual units
Periods of less than full employment correspond to
- the points on the production possibility curve
- either the points inside or outside the production possibility curve
- points outside the production possibility curve
- points inside the production possibility curve