Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Determination of Income and Employment NCERT Solutions | Measure the level of ex-ante aggregate d

Explain ‘Paradox of Thrift’.

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

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?

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

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

Explain why public goods must be provided by the government.

Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.

What are the four factors of production and what are the remunerations to each of these called?

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics?

Distinguish between revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

What are official reserve transactions? Explain their importance in the balance of payments.

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

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

What are the important features of a capitalist economy?

What are the important features of a capitalist economy?

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

‘The fiscal deficit gives the borrowing requirement of the government’. Elucidate.

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

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

Suppose it takes 1.25 yen to buy a rupee, and the price level in Japan is 3 and the price level in India is 1.2. Calculate the real exchange rate between India and Japan (the price of Japanese goods in terms of Indian goods). (Hint: First find out the nominal exchange rate as a price of yen in rupees).

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

Net National Product at Factor Cost of a particular country in a year is Rs 1,900 crores. There are no interest payments made by the households to the firms/government, or by the firms/government to the households. The Personal Disposable Income of the households is Rs 1,200 crores. The personal income taxes paid by them is Rs 600 crores and the value of retained earnings of the firms and government is valued at Rs 200 crores. What is the value of transfer payments made by the government and firms to the households?

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

Consider an economy described by the following functions: C = 20 + 0.80Y, I = 30, G = 50, TR = 100 (a) Find the equilibrium level of income and the autonomous expenditure multiplier in the model. (b) If government expenditure increases by 30, what is the impact on equilibrium income? (c) If a lump-sum tax of 30 is added to pay for the increase in government purchases, how will equilibrium income change?