ECO403 Spring 2006 Final Term Paper

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ECO403
Final Term Examination – Spring 2006
Time Allowed: 150 Minutes

Q uestion No. 1 Marks : 1

A simultaneous Rs.10 million increase in both taxes and govt. spending will have no net
on aggregate
effect
demand.
1. T
2. F

Q uestion No. 2 Marks : 3

W hat four policies could be adopted to encourage the technological


progress?

Question No. 3 Marks : 3


The relationship between MPL and labor unit is:

1. Positive
2. Negative
3. No relationship
4. Vertical

Q uestion No. 4 Marks : 1

T he _____________________is an accumulation of all past annual deficits

Q uestion No. 5 Marks : 1

T he consumption of individuals in the aggregate tends to


vary:
1. More than income
2. Less then income
3. Equal to income
4. Unrelated to
income
Question No. 6 Marks : 1

A recessionary gap exists


when:
1. Aggregate demand exceeds aggregate
2. Aggregate
supply demand exceeds potential
3. Aggregate
output supply exceeds aggregate
4. Potential
demand output exceeds aggregate .
demand
Q uestion No. 7 Marks : 1

At any given value of exchange rate ‘e’, a tariff or quota will not affect net exports.
1. T
2. F

Q uestion No. 8 Marks : 1

W hy the CPI may over estate inflation?

Q uestion No. 9 Marks : 1

A doctrine that states that goods mustell at the same currency-adjusted price in all countries
scalled_________________________. is

Q uestion No. 10 Marks : 3

T he budget deficit or surplus:

1. Is well defined and straightforward to


2. measure.
Is well defined but frequently distorted by creative but improper ting practices.
3. accoun
Is difficult to measure and can be defined mately in several ways.
4. legiti
Is so arbitrarily defined that it is meaningless.

Q uestion No. 11 Marks : 3

Philips curve shows the relationship between population and inflation


1. T rate.
2. F
Q uestion No. 12 Marks : 10

Investment is the most volatile components


of:
1. GDP
2. GNP
3. Personal income
4. Disposable income

Q uestion No. 13 Marks : 1

A utomatic stabilizers refer to:

1. Inherent stock market mechanisms that automatically cause stock market s to be


cancelled out by losses, which make expected long-run returns equal to
gain
zero.
2. Invisible hand mechanisms to automatically bring the economy out of a
3. recession.
Government revenue and diture items that change automatically in response
changes
expen in economic to
activity.
4. Discretio nary monetary policy maneuvers designed to keep inflation automatically
control. under

Q uestion No. 14 Marks : 1

The multiplier effect exists


because:
1. Production and expenditure are
interdependent.
2. when one person increases expenditure one increases
every
3. Production and expenditure are dependen expenditure
4. in
Production causes t
expenditures.
Q uestion No. 15 Marks : 1

__________________is the stock of assets that can be readily used to make


transactions.

Q uestion No. 16 Marks : 1

A change in the wage rate has a substitution and an income t associated with it. Which
of the following statements is associated with the income
effec
effect?

1. People with higher incomes will spend some of it on leisure by working


2. less.
A higher wage rate makes work more attractive relative to leisure and other non
activities. market
3. When wages rise, people will tend to work
4. more.
As wages rise, the opportunity cost of leisure
declines.
Q uestion No. 17 Marks : 1

Favorable __________________lower costs and prices.

Q uestion No. 18 Marks : 10


T he Solow growth model shows that lower investment leads
to
1. A higher steady
state
2. A lower steady state
3. Constant steady
4. state
None of the given
options.
Q uestion No. 19 Marks : 1

How fiscal and monetary policy can ct macro economic variables, use the IS-LM model
to analyze the effects of these
affe
policies.
Q uestion No. 20 Marks : 1

In the short run an increase in saving might:

1. Raise aggregate demand increasing


2. investment
Raise aggregate demand by increasing
3. consumption
Reduce aggregate demand by reducing
4. investment
Reduce aggregate demand by reducing
consumption

Q uestion No. 21 Marks : 1

Policymakers can affect macroeconomic variables


with
1. Fiscal policy
2. Monetary policy
3. With both monetary and scal policy
4. fiNon of the given
options

Q uestion No. 22 Marks : 1

How would a tax cut and budget deficit affect the economy and the economic well-
the country? being of

Question No. 23 Marks : 1

_______________________is the average rate of unemployment around which the


fl uctuates. economy

Q uestion No. 24 Marks : 1

The value of final goods and services measured at current prices is called nominal GDP.
1. True
2. False

Q uestion No. 25 Marks : 3


According to the modern theory of inflation prices are flexible and market clear.
1. True
2. False

Q uestion No. 26 Marks : 1

H ow will you define business ?


cycles
Q uestion No. 27 Marks : 1

T he Philips curve states that inflation rate depends


on:
1. Expected inflation
2. Money supply
3. Employment level
4. All of the given options
Q uestion No. 28 Marks : 1

Key nes conjectured that the inal propensity to consume is:


marg
1. Zero
2. One
3. In betweenzero and one
4. Negative
Q uestion No. 29 Marks : 1

F rom where the demand for loanable funds comes, and on which thing it
depends?
Q uestion No. 30 Marks : 1

E ach firm hires labor up to the level where:

1. MPL = W/P
2. MPL > W/P
3. MPL < W/p
4. None of the given
options
Q uestion No. 31 Marks :1

For each unit of capital a firm earns real revenue R/P and bears real cost
(PK/P)(r + ).Firm needs your help in making decision whether to increase or
capital stock? (5) decrease
b)Explain why investment depends on the real interest rate?
(5)
Question No. 32 Marks : 1

GDP deflator is a measure of the economy’s:

1. Rate of inflation
2. Nominal GD P
3. Stock market level
4. Real GDP

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