Do you consider a commercial bank &lsquo | Class 12 Macro Economics Chapter Money and Banking, Money and Banking NCERT Solutions

What is High Powered Money?

What are the instruments of monetary policy of RBI?

What role of RBI is known as ‘lender of last resort’?

What is a ‘legal tender’? What is ‘fiat money’?

What are the alternative definitions of money supply in India?

What are the main functions of money? How does money overcome the shortcomings of a barter system?

Explain the functions of a commercial bank.

What is transaction demand for money? How is it related to the value of transactions over a specified period of time?

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

What is money multiplier? What determines the value of this multiplier?

Differentiate between devaluation and depreciation.

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.

Explain ‘Paradox of Thrift’.

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.

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

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?

Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.

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

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 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.

Suppose marginal propensity to consume is 0.75 and there is a 20 per cent proportional income tax. Find the change in equilibrium income for the following (a) Government purchases increase by 20 (b) Transfers decrease by 20.