Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Government Budget and Economy NCERT Solutions | Explain why the tax multiplier is smalle

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.

Does public debt impose a burden? Explain.

Explain why public goods must be provided by the government.

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.

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?

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

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?

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?

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).

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?

Describe the Great Depression of 1929.

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

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

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?

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