A. All of these answers are used to measure inflation.
B. consumer price index
C. Producer price index
D. GDP deflector
E. finished goods price index
Economics Mcqs
New technology in the form of computer spreadsheets has increased the productivity of accountants. This will cause ?
A. the demand curve for accountants to shift to the right, since the productivity of accountants has increased
B. firms to move up their demand curves for accountants
C. the demand curve for accountants to shift to the left, since it requires fewer accountants than it did before to do the same amount of work.
D. firms to move down their demand curves for accountants
Which of the following would probably cause the CPI to rise more than the GDP deflator in the Pakistan ?
A. An increase in the price of BMWs produced in Germany and sold in the Pakistan
B. An increase in the price of Peugeots produced in the Pakistan
C. An increase in the price of helicopters purchased by the Pak Navy.
D. An increased in the Price of domestically produced armoured vehicles sold exclusively to Iran
The marginal revenue product of labour is ?
A. the marginal product of capital times the price of labour.
B. the additional revenue a firm earns by employing on additional unit of labour
C. the additional profit a firms earns by employing one additional unit of labour
D. the additional revenue the firm makes by selling one unit of labour.
If there is an increase in the price of apples which causes consumers to purchase fewer kilograms of apples and more kilograms of oranges, the CPI will suffer from ?
A. none of these answers
B. substitution bias
C. base year bias
D. bias due to unmeasured quality change
E. bias due to the introduction of new goods.
If output price is constant, the marginal revenue product of labour curve will have the same shape as the ?
A. total variable cost curve
B. marginal cost curve
C. total product of labour curve
D. marginal product of labour curve
Suppose your income rises from Rs19,000 to Rs31,000 while the CPI rises from 122 to 169 Your standard of living has likely ?
A. fallen
B. You can’t tell without knowing the base year
C. risen
D. stayed the same
Unemployment benefits may increase the unemployment rate because unemployment benefits ?
A. encourage people to quit their jobs
B. reduce the cost of job search
C. enable people to quit searching for work
D. reduce the benefits of additional job searching
If a person who works in coal mine gets paid more than a person with a similar background and skills who works in a safer job, then ?
A. coal miners must have greater human capital than others
B. we have observed a compensating differential
C. coal miners must be more attractive than other workers
D. we have evidence of discrimination against workers outside the coal mine
If inflation is 8 percent and the real interest rate is 3 percent, then the nominal interest rate must be ?
A. 3/8 percent
B. 5 percent
C. 11 percent
D. 24 percent