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Answer: Option D. -> in a lower proportion
Answer: (d)
According to the Keynesian Consumption theory, “men are disposed, as a rule, and on average, to increase their consumption as their income increases, but not by as much as the increase in their income.”
Another feature of consumer behaviour is that when income increases, people do not spend their entire incremental income on consumption. They save a part of it for their financial security during the period of unemployment, illness, etc.
In simple words, the marginal propensity to consume decreases, i.e., households spend a decreasing proportion of marginal income on consumption.
That is why families on a lower-income scale save a lower percentage of their income and those on a higher scale of income save a larger proportion of their income.
Answer: (d)
According to the Keynesian Consumption theory, “men are disposed, as a rule, and on average, to increase their consumption as their income increases, but not by as much as the increase in their income.”
Another feature of consumer behaviour is that when income increases, people do not spend their entire incremental income on consumption. They save a part of it for their financial security during the period of unemployment, illness, etc.
In simple words, the marginal propensity to consume decreases, i.e., households spend a decreasing proportion of marginal income on consumption.
That is why families on a lower-income scale save a lower percentage of their income and those on a higher scale of income save a larger proportion of their income.
Answer: Option A. -> Increase in the stock of unsold articles
Answer: (a)
The gross national product is the sum total of all final goods and services produced by the people of one country in one year. The GNP is a flow concept. It can be calculated with either the expenditure approach or the income approach.
The expenditure approach sums all that is purchased: in a sense, it is equivalent to the income approach because purchases are only possible if income is present.
GDP can be calculated as the sum of all expenditures: personal consumption expenditure (C), gross private domestic investment (Ig), government purchases (G), and net exports (Xn).
An increase in the stock of unsold articles does not come under any of these heads.
Answer: (a)
The gross national product is the sum total of all final goods and services produced by the people of one country in one year. The GNP is a flow concept. It can be calculated with either the expenditure approach or the income approach.
The expenditure approach sums all that is purchased: in a sense, it is equivalent to the income approach because purchases are only possible if income is present.
GDP can be calculated as the sum of all expenditures: personal consumption expenditure (C), gross private domestic investment (Ig), government purchases (G), and net exports (Xn).
An increase in the stock of unsold articles does not come under any of these heads.
Answer: Option C. -> change in autonomous investment due to change in income.
Answer: (c)
The term investment multiplier refers to the concept that any increase in public or private investment spending has a more than proportionate positive impact on aggregate income and the general economy.
The investment multiplier tries to determine the financial impact of a public or private project.
Answer: (c)
The term investment multiplier refers to the concept that any increase in public or private investment spending has a more than proportionate positive impact on aggregate income and the general economy.
The investment multiplier tries to determine the financial impact of a public or private project.
Answer: Option C. -> Satisfaction from two commodities
Answer: (c)
An indifference curve is a locus of combinations of goods which derive the same level of satisfaction so that the consumer is indifferent to any of the combinations he consumes.
If a consumer equally prefers two product bundles, then the consumer is indifferent between the two bundles. The consumer gets the same level of satisfaction (utility) from either bundle.
In other words, an indifference curve is the locus of various points showing different combinations of two goods providing equal utility to the consumer.
Answer: (c)
An indifference curve is a locus of combinations of goods which derive the same level of satisfaction so that the consumer is indifferent to any of the combinations he consumes.
If a consumer equally prefers two product bundles, then the consumer is indifferent between the two bundles. The consumer gets the same level of satisfaction (utility) from either bundle.
In other words, an indifference curve is the locus of various points showing different combinations of two goods providing equal utility to the consumer.
Answer: Option D. -> Tax
Answer: (d)
Octroi is a local tax that is collected by the state government on those goods that have been bought into the city/state for the purpose of personal use and sale.
The charges on the items are generally levied after on the weight, value and a total number of goods. It is levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
Answer: (d)
Octroi is a local tax that is collected by the state government on those goods that have been bought into the city/state for the purpose of personal use and sale.
The charges on the items are generally levied after on the weight, value and a total number of goods. It is levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
Answer: Option C. -> Intermediary
Answer: (c)
Good is any tangible item, whether produced or found naturally and which is available for exchange. A free good is a good that is so abundant in supply that it has no opportunity cost, for example, air.
Intermediary good is a firm’s product that is used as an input into the production process of either the same firm or another.
Answer: (c)
Good is any tangible item, whether produced or found naturally and which is available for exchange. A free good is a good that is so abundant in supply that it has no opportunity cost, for example, air.
Intermediary good is a firm’s product that is used as an input into the production process of either the same firm or another.
Answer: Option C. -> relatively low
Answer: (c)
In developed countries, the labour productivity of any commercial agriculture is high, so only a very small percentage of the population is involved with agriculture even when agriculture is a major industry and export.
These countries focus more on the manufacturing and service industries. Agriculture or the primary sectors of the economy have sizeable contributions to the GDP of developing nations.
Answer: (c)
In developed countries, the labour productivity of any commercial agriculture is high, so only a very small percentage of the population is involved with agriculture even when agriculture is a major industry and export.
These countries focus more on the manufacturing and service industries. Agriculture or the primary sectors of the economy have sizeable contributions to the GDP of developing nations.
Answer: Option B. -> capital depreciation
Answer: (b)
Depreciation refers to two very different but related concepts: the decrease in value of assets (fair value depreciation), and the allocation of the cost of assets to periods in which the assets are used (depreciation with the matching principle).
The difference between the GNP and NNP is equal to capital depreciation. It is the wearing out, breaking down, or technological obsolescence.
Answer: (b)
Depreciation refers to two very different but related concepts: the decrease in value of assets (fair value depreciation), and the allocation of the cost of assets to periods in which the assets are used (depreciation with the matching principle).
The difference between the GNP and NNP is equal to capital depreciation. It is the wearing out, breaking down, or technological obsolescence.
Answer: Option C. -> SWOT Analysis
Answer: (c)
Three of the four options in the question are identical.
Situation analysis refers to a collection of methods that managers use to analyze an organization’s internal and external environment to understand the organization’s capabilities, customers, and business environment.
It is useful for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis in which internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization and external opportunities and threats faced by it are closely examined to chart a strategy.
Answer: (c)
Three of the four options in the question are identical.
Situation analysis refers to a collection of methods that managers use to analyze an organization’s internal and external environment to understand the organization’s capabilities, customers, and business environment.
It is useful for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis in which internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization and external opportunities and threats faced by it are closely examined to chart a strategy.
Answer: Option A. -> Ragner Frisch
Answer: (a)
The terms microeconomics and macroeconomics were coined by Professor Ragnar Frisch of Oslo University for the first time in 1933 and since then they have gained popularity and were widely used by other economists. Now they have become an integral part of economic terminology.
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. Frisch was one of the founders of economics as modern science.
He made a number of significant advances in the field of economics and coined a number of new words.
Answer: (a)
The terms microeconomics and macroeconomics were coined by Professor Ragnar Frisch of Oslo University for the first time in 1933 and since then they have gained popularity and were widely used by other economists. Now they have become an integral part of economic terminology.
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. Frisch was one of the founders of economics as modern science.
He made a number of significant advances in the field of economics and coined a number of new words.