Class 12 Macro Economics - Chapter Open Economy Macroeconomics NCERT Solutions | Suppose the exchange rate between the Ru

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?

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 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?

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?

Does public debt impose a burden? Explain.

Explain why the tax multiplier is smaller in absolute value than the government expenditure multiplier.

Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.

Distinguish between revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

‘The fiscal deficit gives the borrowing requirement of the government’. Elucidate.

What is ‘effective demand’? How will you derive the autonomous expenditure multiplier when price of final goods and the rate of interest are given?

Explain why public goods must be provided by the government.

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?

Are fiscal deficits inflationary?

Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.