Tag: income-output determination

Questions Related to income-output determination

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


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Aggregate supply refers to the sales proceeds from the desired level of output in the economy during an accounting year. Human resources which refers to labor is held to be variable in short run as its application can be changed depending on the requirement of the output in the market. Human resources can be increased or decreased as per the requirement in the market. 

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

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Aggregate supply refers to the desired level of output in the economy during an accounting year. It is through this output only that the producer sector generates income. Therefore, aggregate supply= consumption + savings.

_____________ 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


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Aggregate supply refers to the sales proceeds from the desired level of output in the economy during an accounting year. It is through this output only that the producer sector generates income in the economy at any given level of employment. Therefore, aggregate supply= consumption + savings.

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


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Natural resources which a determinant of aggregate supply also known as land in economics refers to all the natural gifts which are present in the nature including air, water and land that can be used in the production process for the production of desired level of output in the economy. 

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


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Capital refers to the amount which is been invested by the owners of the firm which is used to employ people to work in the production process and also to acquire assets which is used in the production process, Therefore, he aggregate supply and employment depends on the quality and use of this stock of capital because if it is not used efficiently then it will not yield the desired level of output. 

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


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The productive efficiency of labour and capital increases with the use of technology as it refers to the technical way of doing something in a more efficient and easy manner with discovery of some new techniques which increases the efficiency in production when mixed with other factors of production. 

_____ 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


Correct Option: A