Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Government Budget and Economy NCERT Solutions | Consider an economy described by the fol

Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.

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

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.

Are fiscal deficits inflationary?

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

We suppose that C = 70 + 0.70Y D, I = 90, G = 100, T = 0.10Y (a) Find the equilibrium income. (b) What are tax revenues at equilibrium income? Does the government have a balanced budget?

In the above question, calculate the effect on output of a 10 per cent increase in transfers, and a 10 per cent increase in lump-sum taxes. Compare the effects of the two.

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

Does public debt impose a burden? Explain.

Explain why public goods must be provided by the government.

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

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?

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

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?

Calculate the open economy multiplier with proportional taxes, T = tY, instead of lump-sum taxes as assumed in the text.

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).

Are the concepts of demand for domestic goods and domestic demand for goods the same?

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).

Discuss some of the exchange rate arrangements that countries have entered into to bring about stability in their external accounts.

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?

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

Distinguish between stock and flow. Between net investment and capital which is a stock and which is a flow? Compare net investment and capital with flow of water into a tank.

Define budget deficit and trade deficit. The excess of private investment over saving of a country in a particular year was Rs 2,000 crores. The amount of budget deficit was ( – ) Rs 1,500 crores. What was the volume of trade deficit of that country?