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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Which of the following is not a macro economic issue.
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Unempolyment
Inflaction
The wages paid to footballers
Economic growth
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Question # 2
Increased levels of spending on imports
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shift aggregate supply to the right
Shift aggregate supply to the left
Shift aggregate demand to the right
Shift aggregate demand to the left
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Question # 3
An increase in investment is most likely to be caused by.
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Lower interest rates
Lower national income
A decreasing the marginal propensity to consume
An increase in with drywalls.
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Question # 4
According to the quantity theory of money an increase in the money supply is most likely to lead ot inflation if
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The velocity of circulation decreases
The number of transactions decreases
There is deflation
The velocity of circulation and the number of transactions is constant
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Question # 5
If injection are less than with drawls at the full employment level of national income there is.
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an inflationary gap
Equilibrium
A deflationary gap
Hyperinflation
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Question # 6
If one car company takes over another car company this is an example of which type of integration.
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Vertical
Horizontal
Conglomerate
Literal
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Question # 7
Tariffs.
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Decrease the domestic price of a product.
Increase government earnings from tax
Increase the quantity of imports
Decrease domestic production
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Question # 8
If firms join together to set prices and quantities this is known as what.
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Interaction
Conglomerate
Collusion
Integration
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Question # 9
If injections are greater than withdrawals.
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National income will increase
National income will decrease
National income will stay in equilibrium
Price will fall
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Question # 10
The economists who emphasized wage flexibility as a solution for unemployment were.
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Monetarists
New keynesians
Classical economists
Keynesians
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Question # 11
An increase in demand for a product should.
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Increase equilibrium price and quantity.
Decrease equilibrium price and quantity.
Increase equilibrium price and decrease quantity.
Decrease equilibrium price and increase quantity.
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Question # 12
The resources in the economy do not include.
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Demand
Land
Labor
Capital
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Question # 13
Which does the government not control directly.
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Spending on health
spending on defense
Firm's investment decisions
spending on education
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Question # 14
The precautionary demand for money is
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An idle balance
An active balance
Directly related to interest rates
Inversely related to income
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Question # 15
A study of how increase in the minimum wage rate will effect the national unemployment rate is an example of.
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Descriptive economics
Normative economics
Macro economics
Micro economics
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Question # 16
An increase in national income is.
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Likely to increase exports
Likely to decrease savings
Likely to decrease investment
Likely to increase spending on imports
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Question # 17
Scarcity means that
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We cannot have everything that we might want
We have to make choices between the things we desire.
There are costs to just about any activity we undertake
We must give up some thing in order to obtain other things.
All of the above are correct
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Question # 18
An increase in price all other things unchanged leads to.
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A shift in supply out wards
A shift in supply in wards
A contraction of supply
An extension of supply
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Question # 19
Japan's low interest rates in the mid 80's were due to.
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High rates of domestic savings.
A decrease in Japan's exports
Increases in the U.S. deficit
High rates of domestic spending in Japan
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Question # 20
A welfare less occurs in monopoly where
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The price in greater than the marginal cost
The price is greater than the marginal benefit
The price is greater than the average revenue
Has the right to investigate monopolies and will assess each one on its own mertis
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Question # 21
What is the effect of imposing a fixed per unit tax on a good on its equilibrium price and quantity.
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Price falls, quantity rises
Price rises, quantity falls
Both price and quantity fall
Both price and quantity rise
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