MCQs: Monetary & Fiscal Policy | National Income | Union Budget
Expanded MCQs: Monetary & Fiscal Policy | National Income | Union Budget
Monetary Policy and Tools
1. Which of the following is NOT a tool of monetary policy?
- Repo Rate
- Reverse Repo Rate
- Public Debt
- CRR
Answer: c) Public Debt
2. During the Global Financial Crisis (2008), RBI mainly:
- Increased interest rates
- Reduced CRR and SLR
- Cut down budget deficit
- Privatized banks
Answer: b) Reduced CRR and SLR
3. Who formulates the monetary policy in India?
- Finance Ministry
- Prime Minister's Office
- RBI
- NITI Aayog
Answer: c) RBI
4. SLR refers to:
- Statutory Lending Rate
- Statutory Liquidity Ratio
- Standard Lending Rate
- Special Liquidity Reserve
Answer: b) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
Fiscal Policy & FRBM Act
5. Fiscal policy deals with:
- Money supply
- Interest rates
- Government revenue and expenditure
- Credit control
Answer: c) Government revenue and expenditure
6. The FRBM Act was enacted to:
- Control inflation
- Ensure independence of RBI
- Maintain fiscal discipline
- Fund infrastructure
Answer: c) Maintain fiscal discipline
7. Which of the following is a capital receipt?
- Tax revenue
- Interest income
- Disinvestment proceeds
- Customs duty
Answer: c) Disinvestment proceeds
8. Expansionary fiscal policy leads to:
- Decrease in aggregate demand
- Increase in tax rates
- Reduction in government spending
- Increase in government expenditure
Answer: d) Increase in government expenditure
National Income and GDP
9. GDP at market prices includes:
- Subsidies only
- Indirect taxes only
- Indirect taxes minus subsidies
- Direct taxes
Answer: c) Indirect taxes minus subsidies
10. Which is NOT a method to compute national income?
- Income method
- Expenditure method
- Investment method
- Production method
Answer: c) Investment method
11. Personal income is derived from:
- National income + direct taxes
- National income - undistributed profits + transfer payments
- Gross income - subsidies
- None of the above
Answer: b) National income - undistributed profits + transfer payments
12. GNP differs from GDP by including:
- Foreign investments
- Depreciation
- Net income from abroad
- Indirect taxes
Answer: c) Net income from abroad
Union Budget and Deficit Concepts
13. Plan expenditure includes:
- Interest payments
- Defence spending
- Government schemes and development projects
- Subsidy payments
Answer: c) Government schemes and development projects
14. Fiscal deficit is:
- Total expenditure minus total revenue
- Total revenue minus borrowing
- Revenue deficit plus interest payments
- Total expenditure minus total receipts excluding borrowings
Answer: d) Total expenditure minus total receipts excluding borrowings
15. Revenue deficit means:
- Capital receipts less capital expenditure
- Revenue receipts less revenue expenditure
- Fiscal deficit plus borrowings
- None of the above
Answer: b) Revenue receipts less revenue expenditure
16. Which of the following is a non-tax revenue?
- Excise duty
- Corporate tax
- Customs duty
- Dividends from PSUs
Answer: d) Dividends from PSUs
Chapter Number | PAPER I – INDIAN ECONOMY & INDIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM MODULE B: ECONOMIC CONCEPTS RELATED TO BANKING |
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1. |
MODULE B: ECONOMIC CONCEPTS RELATED TO BANKING Fundamentals of Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Types of Economies, and Supply & Demand |
2. | Money Supply and Inflation |
3. | Theories of Interest - Explained with Examples |
4. | Business Cycles and Economic Policies - Explained with Examples |
5. | National Income, GDP and Union Budget - Explained with Examples |
QandAs/MCQs 8 | MCQs: Economics Fundamentals, Micro and Macro Concepts |
QandAs/MCQs 9 | MCQs on Money, Money Supply, and Inflation |
QandAs/MCQs 10 | MCQs on Theories of Interest - IS-LM, Classical & Keynesian Theory |
QandAs/MCQs 11 | MCQs: Business Cycle, Policies, National Income |
QandAs/MCQs 12 | MCQs: Monetary & Fiscal Policy | National Income | Union Budget |
MODULE C: INDIAN FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE | |
MODULE D: FINANCIAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES | |
MODULE A: INDIAN ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE |
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