Economics

Practice fundamental economics concepts including micro and macroeconomics principles such as scarcity, supply and demand, production possibility, inflation, money supply, and economic systems.

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

.............. 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
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Unanticipated deflation
  2. Anticipated deflation
  3. Unanticipated inflation
  4. Anticipated inflation
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consumption possibility frontier is the same as

  1. the indifference curve
  2. the budget line
  3. the production possibility frontier
  4. the demand curve
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The central problem in economics is of

  1. production
  2. assets allocation
  3. money
  4. scarcity
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. consumers
  2. voters
  3. government
  4. workers
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. expected
  2. average
  3. total
  4. marginal
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a factor of production?

  1. Labour
  2. Bank loan
  3. Capital
  4. Land
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The study of inflation is part of

  1. micro-economics
  2. descriptive economics
  3. normative economics
  4. macro-economics
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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