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PPSC Economics Full Book MCQ Test MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
An intensive study of particular case is.
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Content analysis
Case study
Research design
intensive study
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Question # 2
The earliest statement of the principle of comparative advantage in associated with
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Adam Smith
David Ricardo
E . Heckscher
Bertil Ohlin
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Question # 3
An allocation is Pareto efficient if no reallocation of resources would make some people_______ whiteout making others
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Worse off, worse off
better off, better off
better off, worse off
equal , unequal
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Question # 4
In monopolistic competition, firms desire to sell more output at equilibrium because.
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Price is greater than average cost
Price is greater than average variable cost
Price is greater than marginal cost
Price is equal to marginal revenue
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Question # 5
As the MPS increases, the multiplier will
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Increase
Either increase or decrease depending on the size of the change in investment
Remain constant
Decrease
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Question # 6
To anticipate what the economy is going to do next the government will look at.
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Lagging indicators
Flashing indicators
Coincidental iindicators
Leading indicators
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Question # 7
In an open economy leakages to imports ______ the value of the multiplier.
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Reduce
Increase
do not change
None of these
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Question # 8
A competitive equilibrium is described by
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A price only
A quantity only
The excess supply minus the exceess demand.
A price and a quantity
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Question # 9
When supply increases in an agricultural market famer's earnings might fall because.
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Supply is price elastic
Demand is price inelastic
the government buys up all the excess production
All output must be sold at a maximum price
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Question # 10
The tax is question 52 is
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Progressive's
Regressive
Proportional
None of these
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Question # 11
"Human Welfare is the subject of Economics" Y. This statement is associated with the name of which of the economists.
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Marshall
Pigou
Pension
All of the above
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Question # 12
___________ are quotas that lead to a complete abolishment of trade.
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Nontariff barriers
Embargoes
Voluntary export restraints
Orderly marketing agreements
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Question # 13
To stabilize the prices of primary products international commodity agreements have utilized all of the following except.
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Tariff -rate quotas applied to imported goods.
Production and export controls.
Buffer stocks
Multilateral contracts
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Question # 14
A nation experiences internal balance if it acieves.
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Price stability
Full employment and price stability
Unemployment and price instability
Full employment
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Question # 15
If the quantity of money demands is less than the quantity of money supplied then the interest rate will.
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Either increases or decrease, depending on the amount of excess demand.
Increase
Decrease
not change
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Question # 16
Aggregate demand in an economy trading internationally with a government sector can be written s.
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AD = C+1
AD = C + 1+ G
AD = C +1+G+X+Z
AD+C+1+G+X-Z
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Question # 17
A straight line downward sloping demand curve implies that as price falls the elasticity of demand.
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Increases
Decreases
Remain the same
None of these
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Question # 18
A proposition which can be putto test to determine validity
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Hypothesis
Operational definition
Data collection tool
Research design
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Question # 19
Headquarter of the Planning commission of Pakistan is located in.
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Karachi
Lahore
Islamabad
None of these
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Question # 20
__________ policies attempt to foster industrialization by establishing high barriers to import of foreign goods to promote local production.
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absolute advantage
Comparative advantage
Export led growth
Import substitution
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Question # 21
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 # 22
For perfect competition ot work there must be
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Many buyers and sellers
A standard product
Free entry and exit
All of the above
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Question # 23
A situation in which firms choose their best strategy given the strategies chosen by the other firms in the market is called.
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a competitive equilibrium
An open market solution
The Nash equilibrium
The cartel equilibrium
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Question # 24
the_____________ analysis considers the ability of domestic and foreign prices to adjust to devaluation in the short run.
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Pass through
Absorption
Adjustment mechanism
currency contract period
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Question # 25
To be considered a good candidate for an export cartel a commodity should.
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Be a manufactured good
Be a primary product
Have a high price elasticity of supply
Have a low price elasticity of demand
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Question # 26
Last land reforms made in 1977 by
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Z.A.Bhutto
Zia ul Haq
Nawaz Sharif
None of these
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Question # 27
The theory that is equilibrium workers wages will barely be adequate for biological needs is knows as the.
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Labor theory of value
Convergence hypothesis
Subsistence theory of wages
Indicative planning model
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Question # 28
Sample implies
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Survey representation of larger whole
Smaller representation of larger whole
Population representation of a larger whole
Census representation of a larger whole
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Question # 29
Devaluation of rupee would result into
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Expensive exports
Expensive imports
Expensive labour
Overvalues Rupee
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Question # 30
The equilibrium inflation rate is determine by the intersection of __________ and ___
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demand, supply
IS , LM
AD, AS
Labour demand, labour supply
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Question # 31
If labour productivity per week is 200 units and there are 5 employees what is the total output.
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40 units
195 units
1000 units
200 units
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