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

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

Explain ‘Paradox of Thrift’.

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

Distinguish between the nominal exchange rate and the real exchange rate. If you were to decide whether to buy domestic goods or foreign goods, which rate would be more relevant? Explain.

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

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.

Differentiate between devaluation and depreciation.

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

What is the marginal propensity to import when M = 60 + 0.06Y? What is the relationship between the marginal propensity to import and the aggregate demand function?