Are the concepts of demand for domestic goods and domestic demand for goods the same?
In a closed economy, the demand for domestic goods and domestic demand for goods are similar terms. However, in an open economy, these two terms have different meanings. Demand for domestic goods includes both domestic and foreign demand for domestic goods. Whereas, domestic demand for goods refers to the domestic market demand of a country, that is either produced domestically or abroad (foreign countries).
Differentiate between devaluation and depreciation.
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?
Suppose the exchange rate between the Rupee and the dollar was Rs. 30=1$ in the year 2010. Suppose the prices have doubled in India over 20 years while they have remained fixed in USA. What, according to the purchasing power parity theory will be the exchange rate between dollar and rupee in the year 2030.
What are official reserve transactions? Explain their importance in the balance of payments.
Would the central bank need to intervene in a managed floating system? Explain why.
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.
Suppose C = 100 + 0.75Y D, I = 500, G = 750, taxes are 20 per cent of income, X = 150, M = 100 + 0.2Y . Calculate equilibrium income, the budget deficit or surplus and the trade deficit or surplus.
How is the exchange rate determined under a flexible exchange rate regime?
Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.
Should a current account deficit be a cause for alarm? Explain.
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.
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?
Distinguish between revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.
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?
Give the relationship between the revenue deficit and the fiscal deficit.
What are the alternative definitions of money supply in India?
Do you consider a commercial bank ‘creator of money’ in the economy?
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 role of RBI is known as ‘lender of last resort’?
What is a ‘legal tender’? What is ‘fiat money’?
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 a barter system? What are its drawbacks?