Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Money and Banking NCERT Solutions | What is High Powered Money?

What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?

What are the alternative definitions of money supply in India?

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

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

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

What are the instruments of monetary policy of RBI?

Explain the functions of a commercial bank.

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

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

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

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 the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics?

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

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 important features of a capitalist economy?

Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.

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?

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.

Write down the three identities of calculating the GDP of a country by the three methods. Also briefly explain why each of these should give us the same value of GDP.

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

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?

From the following data, calculate Personal Income and Personal Disposable Income.
                                                                               Rs (crore)
(a) Net Domestic Product at factor cost                    8,000
(b) Net Factor Income from abroad                              200
(c) Undisbursed Profit                                                1,000
(d) Corporate Tax                                                         500
(e) Interest Received by Households                         1,500
(f) Interest Paid by Households                                  1,200
(g) Transfer Income                                                       300
(h) Personal Tax                                                            500

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

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?

How is the exchange rate determined under a flexible exchange rate regime?