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Economics Mcqs 4423 MCQs [All-Courses]

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Economics MCQs cover fundamental concepts of microeconomics and macroeconomics, including demand and supply, inflation, national income, and economic policies.
This section is designed to strengthen analytical skills and conceptual understanding for competitive examinations.
Highly useful for PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, and other testing services preparation.

An increase in expected inflation ?
A shifts the short run Phillips curve downward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is less favorable.
B shifts the short-run Phillips curve upward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is more favorable
C Shift the short-run Phillips curve downward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is more favorable
D Shifts the Short run Phillips curve upward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is less favorable
Correct Answer: Shifts the Short run Phillips curve upward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is less favorable
If, in the long run, people adjust their price expectations so that all prices and incomes move proportionately to an increase in the price level then the long-run Phillips curve ?
A is vertical
B is negatively sloped
C has a slope that is determined by how fast people adjust their price expectations
D is positively sloped
Correct Answer: is vertical
The Phillips curve is an extension of the model of aggregate supply and aggregate demand because, in the short run, an increase in aggregate demand increase price and ?
A decreases unemployment
B decrease growth
C increases unemployment
D decreases inflation
Correct Answer: decreases unemployment
The misery index Which some commentators suggest measures the health of the economy, is ?
A The sum of the growth rate of output and the inflation rate
B The sum of the natural rate of unemployment and the actual rate of unemployment
C The sum of the inflation rate and the central bank’s refinancing rate
D The sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate
Correct Answer: The sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate
A critic of “Shock therapy” to transition economies. Vladamir Popov, contends that shock therapists put a heavy emphasis on ?
A introducing the reform package at once to ensure that it became too late and costly to reverse the reforms
B agricultural reform rather than industrial reforms to overcome food insecurity
C the creation of a small-scale private sector ans small independent banks
D attempts to gradually remake institutions
Correct Answer: introducing the reform package at once to ensure that it became too late and costly to reverse the reforms
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are also called ?
A centralized firms
B government oligopolies
C market economies
D public enterprises
Correct Answer: public enterprises
The industrial concentration ratio is the proportion of an industry’s output ?
A produced by the three largest firms in the industry
B produced in cement, machine tools and steel industries
C and labor intensities relative to labor productivity
D as a percentage of production and marketing
Correct Answer: produced by the three largest firms in the industry
In 1979-80 China first created _____ for foreigners to set up enterprises hire labor and import duty-free goods for processing and re-exporting ?
A special economic zones
B liberalized trade monopoly zones
C Economic Union zones
D Communist free trade areas
Correct Answer: special economic zones
Structural economists from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) emphasized ?
A contractionary monetary and fiscal policies
B currency devaluation
C long-run institutional and structural economic change
D short term-adjustment with a human face
Correct Answer: long-run institutional and structural economic change
S = Savings, I = domestic investment, X = exports of goods and services, and M = imports of goods and services Which of the following is true ?
A S – I = X = M
B S + I = X + M
C S = I – (X+M)
D S-I = X/M
Correct Answer: S – I = X = M