Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Government Budget and Economy NCERT Solutions | We suppose that C = 70 + 0.70Y D, I = 90

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.

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 do you understand by G.S.T? How good is the system of G.S.T as compared to the old tax system? State its categories.

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?

Do you consider a commercial bank ‘creator of money’ in the economy?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Why is the open economy autonomous expenditure multiplier smaller than the closed economy one?

What are the alternative definitions of money supply in India?