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Model Exam II
Model Exam II
4.One is false about long run equilibrium of a firm in a perfectly competitive market?
A.Short run marginal cost equals long run marginal cost
B.Price equals long run average cost
C.Marginal revenue equals short run marginal cost
D.None
5.Suppose a firm can produce the same commodity using two methods. Accordingly, it takes 2 units of
labor and 4 birr under method A whereas it takes 1 unit of labor and 4 birr under method B. Then, which
of the following is correct?
A.Both method A and Method B are considered to be technically efficient.
B.Method B is considered to be technically efficient than method A.
C.Method A is considered to be technically efficient than method B.
D.Neither Method A nor Method B are considered to be technically efficient
Question ID:3000 and answer is B
6.Which one of the following statement is true?
A.Risk averse consumer prefers a certain income to a risky income with the same expected value
B.A risk loving consumer always accepts a fair gamble to certain outcome
C. Risk averse consumer has a convex utility curve
D.Risk averse consumer prefers a risky income to a certain income with the same expected value.
8.At minimum level of average variable cost, one of the following is false?
A.It is equal to marginal cost
B.Marginal product is equal to average product
C.Marginal product is rising
D.Marginal cost is raising
11.Which of the following is false about Edgeworth contract curve of a general equilibrium exchange
efficiency?
A.It is obtained by connecting tangency points of isoquant
B.Every point along it is Pareto efficient
C.It is by connecting tangency points of indifference curve
D.None
13.Which of the following market types has a large number of firms that sell similar but slightly different
products?
A.perfect competition
B.monopoly
C.monopolistic competition
D.Oligopoly
14.A situation in which occurs when a person/firm is involved in a transaction without having full
information is
A.adverse-selection problem
B.free-rider problem
C.moral hazard problem
D.negative externality problem
16.[Development Planning and Project Analysis II Questions]. In which stage of project life cycle
decision has made to accept or reject for the project?
A.Preparation
B.Appraisal
C.Implementation
D.Evaluation
17.Which one of the following is the cause for overestimation of financial cash flow of a project?
A.Omission of implicit costs
B.Ignorance of intangible benefit
C.Reduce salvage value of machine
D.All the above
18. Which one of the following is false about ARR of project profitability measure?
A.It consider time value of money
B.It fails to consider cash flow
C.It consider depreciation
D.It measure profitability
19.Which one of the following is true about characteristics of economic analysis as compare to financial
analysis?
A.Include transfer payment in cash flow
B.Exclude intangible benefit and cost from calculation of NPV& BCR
C.Project input and output valued by market price
D.Inclusion of unpriced inputs
21.Which one of the following is not the purpose of monitoring and evaluation (M&E)?
A.Build individualism
B.Encourage anti-monopoly
C.Develop policy
D.Enhance accountability
22.Which one of the following is false about external monitoring and evaluation?
A.M&E is conducted by out of the member team
B.Finding & recommendation are reported by project management
C.Finding &recommendation are documented in review
D.Assess the effectiveness of internal M&E
23.Which levels of monitoring and evaluations are concerned about the objectives of project
A.Output
B.Activity
C.Impact
D.Input
26.A decrease in interest rate will result an increase in investment and, hence, an increase in output. This
notion helps to derive,
A.The Liquidity preference
B.The LM curve
C.The Keynesian cross
D.The IS curve
27.The principal difference between Classical/Neoclassical school and Keynesian school is that,
A. Classical/Neoclassical economics believes on full employment, but Keynesian does not
B.Keynesian economics emphasizes on role of effective aggregate demand in determining output of a
nation, while Classical/Neoclassical emphasize on supply side factors
C.Keynesian economics believes on active role of government, but classical/Neoclassical does not
D.All of the above
Question ID:3160 and answer is D
28.The Marshal-Lerner condition states that for a devaluation to be successful, the sum of elasticity of
import and elasticity to export should be;
A.one
B.less than one
C.Greater than one
D.greater than zero
29. What policy shifts the IS or LM curve and what effect it produces, according to IS–LM model
A.Expansionary fiscal policies—shift the LM curve—raise interest rate and national income
B.Expansionary monetary policy—shift LM curve—reduce interest rate but raise national income
C.Expansionary fiscal policies—shift the IS curve—decrease interest rate but raise nationalincome
D.Contractionary monetary policy—shift the IS curve—decrease interest rate and national income
31.The critical macroeconomic policy implication of a vertical long-run Phillips Curve is that...
A.inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon
B.money illusion is the source of the unemployment in the long-run
C.big inflations will be stopped by big recession
D.Demand policies cannot move the actual unemployment rate permanently away from its equilibrium
level.
41.At which stage of Rostow’s growth model is overcoming the problem and forward linkage to the
industry?
A.Stage of Drives to maturity
B.Take-off stage
C.Stage of traditional society
D.The stage of mass consumption
43.[DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS II QUESTIONS] - One of the following is not true about Harris-
Todaro Migration Model?
A. Migration is a rational economic decision
B.The probability of obtaining urban job is inversely related to the urban unemployment rate
C.The assumption of full or near full employment is not realistic in the context of most developing
nations
D. Migration decision depends on actual wage differentials
44.Which one of the following is not the importance of urban informal sectors?
A.It provides access to training and apprenticeships at substantially lower costs.
B.It is more likely to adopt appropriate technologies and allows an inefficient allocation of resources
C.It generates demand for unskilled and semiskilled labor whose supply is increasing and unlikely to be
absorbed by the formal sector
D.Promotion of informal sector ensures an increased distribution of the benefits of development
49.All are reasons that closing educational gender gap by expanding educational opportunities for women
is economically desirable except:
A. Educational discrimination hinders economic development in addition to reinforcing inequality
B.Any significant improvement in the role and status of women through education can have an important
impact on breaking the vicious circle of poverty
C.Increasing women’s education increases productivity, labor force participation and fertility
D.The rate of return on women’s education is higher than men’s education in most developing countries
50.[INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS I QUESTIONS ] Which one of the following is the best argument
for free trade policy?
A.Efficient resource utilization.
B.To protect infant industry.
C.To secure national interest.
D.To maintain balance of payment surplus.
52.Which one of the following is an immediate cause of base for international trade?
A.Difference in factor endowment
B.difference in specialization
C.Difference in price of good and service
D.difference in technological advancement
55. According to the factor endowment trade theory, which one of the following is false?
A.The nations export is definitely based on the factor abundance.
B.In any case, outputs are produced with increasing return to scale.
C.There is balanced trade between the nations.
D.the price of factors are determined by the market force
56.Which one of the following is true about the contribution of trade for development except?
A.Transmission of knowledge and technology
B.Stimulate economies of scales
C.Over utilization of domestic resource
D.Stimulation of domestic demand
57.__________ is a forms of economic integration that Eliminates trade barriers between member
countries, and adopts a common external trade policy
A.free trade area
B.custom union
C.economic union
D.common market
59.Suppose that the price of a car is $5500 in U.S. and birr 302, 500 in Ethiopia. Which of the following
is true about absolute purchasing-power parity theory?
A.The equilibrium exchange rate between $/birr =5500
B.The equilibrium exchange rate between $/birr =55
C.The equilibrium exchange rate between Birr/$ =302,500
D.The equilibrium exchange rate between birr/$ =55
62.Which of the following policy tools shifts the direction of demand between domestic output and
imports?
A.Revaluation
B.Increase in government expenditure
C.Devaluation
D.Reductions of money supply
64.Given a system of floating exchange rates, falling income in would trigger a (an):
A.decrease in the demand for imports and a decrease in the demand for foreign currency
B. increase in the demand for imports and an increase in the demand for foreign currency
C.decrease in the demand for imports and an increase in the demand for foreign currency
D.increase in the demand for imports and a decrease in the demand for foreign currency
66.[MONETARY ECONOMICS QUESTIONS] - The evolution of the payments system from barter to
precious metals, then to fiat money, then to checks can best be understood as a consequence of
A.Government regulations designed to improve the efficiency of the payments system
B.Innovations that reduced the costs of exchanging goods and services
C.Government regulations designed to promote the safety of the payments system
D.Competition among firms to make it easier for customers to purchase their products
68.Which of the following policy actions by a central bank is likely to increase the money supply?
A.Increasing reserve requirements
B.Buying government bonds in open market operations
C.Increasing the refinancing rate.
D.All of these will increase the money supply.
71.Money overcomes the problem of a double coincidence of wants inherent in the barter system through
its function as
A.medium of exchange
B.standard of deferred payment
C.unit of account
D.standard of deferred payment
74.[MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS QUESTIONS] - The demand equations for a certain product say
x is P=6-(1/2)X. At what level of output does revenue reaches maximum?
A.12
B.9
C.15
D.6
77.Given the demand function for the first good as: Q1 = 100 – P1 + 0.75P2 – 0.25P3 + 0.0075Y and P1
= 10, P2 = 20, P3 = 40 and Y = 10,000, what is the cross elasticity between good one and good two?
A.0.088
B.0.052
C.0.059
D.0.042
82.When you have an omitted variable problem, the assumption that E(ui,xi) = 0 is violated. This implies
that,
A.The sum of the residuals is no longer zero
B.The OLS estimator is no longer consistent
C.The variance of the estimator is no longer constant
D.The correlation between explanatory variables is no longer zero
83.The interpretation of the slope coefficient in the model ln(Yi)=B0+B1 ln(X1) +ui is as follows
A.A 1% change in X is associated with a β1 % change in Y
B.A change in X by one unit is associated with a 100 β1 % change in Y
C.A change in X by one unit is associated with a β1 change in Y
D.A 1% change in X is associated with a change in Y of 0.01 β1
86.Suppose estimation of women labor force participation in terms of monthly hours worked (Hours) as a
function of daily wage rate (Wage), spouse income (spouse), and number of sibling (sibling) gives the
following result. Sample size is 600 and the standard errors are 16.00, 0.20, 0.10 and 4.00 respectively.
Hours=80+0.6Wage-0.25Spouse-6Sibling Which variable does not affect participation?
A.Wage
B.Sibling
C.Spouse income
D.None of the above
90.When the linear combination of two non-stationary variables becomes stationary, this is known as
A.Integrated stochastic process
B.Augmented Dickey Fuller
C.Cointegration
D.Engle-Granger
92.If OLS is applied separately to each equation that is part of a simultaneous system, the resulting
estimates will be
A.Unbiased and consistent
B.Biased and inconsistent
C.Biased but consistent
D.it is impossible to apply OLS to equations that are part of a simultaneous system