The short run fixed price analysis of the product market - class-XII

the short run fixed price analysis of the product market

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Equilibrium beyond the full employment level does not lead to rise in output level. 

  1. True
  2. False
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to Keynes, the equilibrium level of income is always determined corresponding to full employment level. 

  1. True
  2. False
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

 In determination of Equilibrium Level of Income by AD-AS approach, AD curve is represented by ____________.

  1. (C + S) curve
  2. (C + I) curve
  3. (S + I) curve
  4. (C +Y) curve
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The two approaches to determination of the equilibrium level of income are:

  1. Aggregate demand-Aggregate supply approach
  2. Saving-Investment approach
  3. Demand-Supply approach
  4. Both A & B
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When aggregate supply exceeds aggregate demand or when investment is less than savings, _____________ will decrease.

  1. savings
  2. price
  3. income
  4. all of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When aggregate demand exceeds aggregate supply or when investment is greater than savings, _____________ will increase.

  1. price
  2. income
  3. savings
  4. all of the above
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

______________ propounded the Liquidity Preference Theory of Interest.

  1. Adam Smith
  2. Marshall
  3. Keynes
  4. None of the above
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_______________ means the preference of the people to hold wealth in the form of liquid cash rather than in other non-liquid assets like bonds, securities, bills of exchange, land, building, gold etc.

  1. Demand preference
  2. Liquidity preference
  3. Supply preference
  4. Transaction preference
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Government expenditure is undertaken for ___________.

  1. consumption purpose
  2. investment purpose
  3. either A or B
  4. neither A nor B
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Import and export are the two sides of ____________.

  1. market equilibrium
  2. international trade
  3. global currency valuations
  4. balance of payments
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The ___________ net earning from foreign trade is added to the national income of the country.

  1. positive
  2. negative
  3. constant
  4. total
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a country's export is higher than the imports, the net earning from trade is ___________.

  1. negative
  2. constant
  3. positive
  4. none of the above
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the net earning from foreign trade is zero, it largely impacts the national income.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Net earnings from foreign transactions is symbolically expressed as _____________.

  1. $X-M$
  2. $X-I$
  3. $G-M$
  4. $M-X$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Government expenditure is a component of the ____________ in the economy

  1. aggregate supply
  2. aggregate income
  3. aggregate demand
  4. all of the above
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The income received by a country through exports, in the form of _____________, can be utilized by the country to import required goods and services.

  1. domestic currency
  2. foreign currency
  3. SDRs
  4. none of the above
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the following:

List - I(Type of Unemployment) List - II(Associated Fact)
A. Frictional Unemployment 1. Non-availability of job
B. Structural Unemployment 2. Marginal productivity is zero
C. Seasonal Unemployment 3. Use of obsolete technology for production
D. Disguised Unemployment 4. Population pressure on land
  1. $4, 2, 1, 3$
  2. $1, 3, 4, 2$
  3. $4, 3, 1, 2$
  4. $1, 2, 4, 3$
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Frictional unemployment is consistent with full employment.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Frictional unemployment rate of ________ is consistent with full employment level, as per the experience of developed countries.

  1. 3 to 4%
  2. 5 to 8%
  3. upto 2%
  4. 10 to 15%
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the aggregate spending is not sufficient to produce that level of output which requires full employment of the available resources, it results in ______________.

  1. inflation
  2. unemployment
  3. social problems
  4. none of the above
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equilibrium below full employment level is termed as _____________.

  1. underemployment equilibrium
  2. over employment equilibrium
  3. aggregate disequilibrium
  4. none of the above
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____________ may be defined as the situation when all those persons who are willing to work at the prevailing wage rate are getting work and are employed.

  1. Disguised employment
  2. Full employment
  3. Voluntary employment
  4. Involuntary employment
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Excessive aggregate spending leads to full employment level of output accompanied with ____________.

  1. lower income level
  2. poverty
  3. inflation
  4. none of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Unemployment prevailing in Indian farms is _______.

  1. open unemployment
  2. disguised unemployment
  3. seasonal unemployment
  4. none of these
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blanks from the alternatives given in the brackets.
Post graduate working as a peon is called ______.

  1. under employment
  2. unemployment
  3. structural unemployment
  4. seasonal employment
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When due to introduction of new machinery, some workers tend to be replaced by machines, it is termed as ____________ unemployment.

  1. structural
  2. technological
  3. mechanical
  4. seasonal.
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate Supply and __________ are always equal.

  1. National Income
  2. Aggregate Demand
  3. Marginal Propensity to save are always equal.
  4. Average Propensity to Consume
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The gap by which actual aggregate demand exceeds the aggregate supply required to establish full employment equilibrium is known as ______.

  1. Deficient Demand
  2. Deflationary gap
  3. Inflationary Gap
  4. Excess Demand
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Effective demand is determined at the point of equality between aggregate demand and aggregate supply. 

  1. True
  2. False
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If aggregate demand exceeds aggregate supply, the income rises. 

  1. True
  2. False
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following determinants of aggregate supply are held to be constant in the short run?

  1. Natural resources
  2. Stock of capital
  3. State of technical knowledge
  4. All of the above
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following determinants of aggregate supply is held to be variable in the short run?

  1. Human resources
  2. Stock of capital
  3. State of technology
  4. Natural resources
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate supply refers to the total value of output of goods and services produced in an economy in a year.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____________ refers to the minimum amount of sales proceeds which entrepreneurs expect to receive from the sale of output at any given point level of employment.

  1. Aggregate revenue
  2. Aggregate supply
  3. Aggregate income
  4. None of the above
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Natural resources, also termed as land in economics, include all those natural gifts which are on the surface, below the surface and above the surface of the earth.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The aggregate supply and employment in the economy depends upon the stock of __________, its quality and use.

  1. inventory
  2. capital
  3. either A or B
  4. neither A nor B
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The productive efficiency of labour and capital increases with the use of __________.

  1. natural resources
  2. technology
  3. both A and B
  4. neither A nor B
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____ refers to that period in which supply of a commodity cannot be increased beyond its existing stock even if the demand has increased.

  1. Very short period
  2. Short period
  3. Long period
  4. Very long period
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Deficiency in demand has no effect on the country's output and prices.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Increase in margin requirements helps to control the situation of deficient demand.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If planned investment falls short of planned saving, then stock of goods tend to pile up.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When aggregate demand is greater than aggregate supply, inventories: 

  1. Fall
  2. Rise
  3. Do not change
  4. First fag, then rise
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If net income from abroad is negative it means value of exports is less than value of imports.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate demand in an economy is measured in terms of the total expenditure on goods and services.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_______________ is the minimum amount of money, which all the entrepreneurs in the economy must receive from the sale of output produced by them, at any given level of employment.

  1. Aggregate supply price
  2. Aggregate profit
  3. Aggregate demand price
  4. Aggregate income
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate demand function represents a ________ relationship between the level of output and employment and the aggregate demand price.

  1. positive
  2. negative
  3. constant
  4. non-linear
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate demand function is represented by a downward sloping curve.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate supply curve becomes a ____________, after the full employment level has been achieved in the economy.

  1. vertical line
  2. downward sloping curve
  3. horizontal line
  4. none of the above
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The aggregate demand curve intercepts on the _________.

  1. Y-axis
  2. X-axis
  3. point of origin
  4. none of the above
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_____________ refers to what the households and firms are expected to spend on the purchase of different goods and services in the economy.

  1. Aggregate supply price
  2. Aggregate demand price
  3. Aggregate expenditure
  4. None of the above
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The aggregate supply function starts from the origin.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate supply function is a ___________ curve.

  1. upward sloping
  2. horizontal curve, followed by a upward sloping
  3. downward sloping
  4. upward sloping curve at first, followed by a vertical
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate supply function becomes parallel to the Y-axis, after the full employment level has been achieved in the economy.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Aggregate supply is a function of the level of employment in the short run.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Public expenditure includes expenditure on social goods.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The aggregate demand determines the flow of total expenditure.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Saving increases with increase in income.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Changes in level of income and employment can be brought by changing aggregate demand.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the short run, land, capital, technology remain constant.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Inventory investment refers to investment in fixed capital assets. 

  1. True
  2. False
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Autonomous consumption can be zero.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Autonomous consumption expenditure cannot be zero.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For open economy aggregate demand is equal to Consumption + Investment + Government expenditure.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Equilibrium price and quantity is determined by ___________.

  1. Mid-point of demand curve
  2. Central planning agency
  3. Intersection of demand and supply curve
  4. Mutual discussion of trade and consumer associations