Explain ‘Paradox of Thrift’. | Class 12 Macro Economics Chapter Determination of Income and Employment, Determination of Income and Employment NCERT Solutions

What is the difference between ex ante investment and ex post investment?

What is marginal propensity to consume? How is it related to marginal propensity to save?

What is ‘effective demand’? How will you derive the autonomous expenditure multiplier when price of final goods and the rate of interest are given?

Measure the level of ex-ante aggregate demand when autonomous investment and consumption expenditure (A) is Rs 50 crores, and MPS is 0.2 and level of income (Y) is Rs 4000 crores. State whether the economy is in equilibrium or not (cite reasons).

What do you understand by ‘parametric shift of a line’? How does a line shift when its (i) slope decreases, and (ii) its intercept increases?

Differentiate between devaluation and depreciation.

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

Write down some of the limitations of using GDP as an index of welfare of a country.

Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.

From the following data, calculate Personal Income and Personal Disposable Income.
                                                                               Rs (crore)
(a) Net Domestic Product at factor cost                    8,000
(b) Net Factor Income from abroad                              200
(c) Undisbursed Profit                                                1,000
(d) Corporate Tax                                                         500
(e) Interest Received by Households                         1,500
(f) Interest Paid by Households                                  1,200
(g) Transfer Income                                                       300
(h) Personal Tax                                                            500

Why should the aggregate final expenditure of an economy be equal to the aggregate factor payments? Explain.

Give the relationship between the revenue deficit and the fiscal deficit.

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.

Suppose C = 40 + 0.8Y D, T = 50, I = 60, G = 40, X = 90, M = 50 + 0.05Y

(a) Find equilibrium income. (b) Find the net export balance at equilibrium income (c) What happens to equilibrium income and the net export balance when the government purchases increase from 40 and 50?

Are fiscal deficits inflationary?

What is High Powered Money?

Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.

Explain the automatic mechanism by which BoP equilibrium was achieved under the gold standard.

Suppose that for a particular economy, investment is equal to 200, government purchases are 150, net taxes (that is lump-sum taxes minus transfers) is 100 and consumption is given by C = 100 + 0.75Y (a) What is the level of equilibrium income? (b) Calculate the value of the government expenditure multiplier and the tax multiplier. (c) If government expenditure increases by 200, find the change in equilibrium income.

Describe the four major sectors in an economy according to the macroeconomic point of view.

What are the important features of a capitalist economy?

What are the instruments of monetary policy of RBI?

What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics?

The value of the nominal GNP of an economy was Rs 2,500 crores in a particular year. The value of GNP of that country during the same year, evaluated at the prices of same base year, was Rs 3,000 crores. Calculate the value of the GNP deflator of the year in percentage terms. Has the price level risen between the base year and the year under consideration?

Explain why the tax multiplier is smaller in absolute value than the government expenditure multiplier.