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Which of the following will be the outcome if an economy is under the inflationary pressure?

1.Domestic currency heads for depreciation.

2.Exports become less competitive with imports getting costlier.

3.Cost of borrowing decreases.4.Bondholders get benefitted.

 

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

 

A) 1 and 2 B) 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 3 and 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1 and 3 only

Explanation:

Creditors and debtors:

During inflation creditors lose because they receive in effect less in goods and services than if they had received the repayments during a period of low prices. Debtors, on other hand, as a group gain during inflation, since they repay their debts in currency that has lost its value.The aggregate volume of internal trade tends to increase during inflation due to higher incomes, greater production and larger spending. But the export trade is likely to suffer on account of arise in the prices of domestic goods.

The same currency unit will now buy less goods and services.But the bondholders lose as they get a fixed interest the real value of which has already fallen.

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Match the characteristics with their market structure:

(a) Differentiated products, but close substitutes for consumers so their demand curves are elastic.
(b) Firm will tend to set output so that it earns maximum profits.

A) (a) Pure competition, (b) Pure Monopoly B) (a) Monopolistic competition, (b) Oligopoly
C) (a) Oligopoly, (b) Pure Monopoly D) (a) Monopolistic competition, (b) Pure Monopoly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) (a) Monopolistic competition, (b) Pure Monopoly

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The famous Rock Garden is located in which city?

A) Jaipur B) Simla
C) Lucknow D) Chandigarh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Chandigarh

Explanation:

The famous Rock Garden which is also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957 is in the city Chandigarh.

 

The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India.

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The highest mountain peak of Chhotanagpur Plateau is ________.

 

A) Dhoopgarh B) Pachmarhi
C) Parasnath D) Parasnath
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Parasnath

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Q:

The International Date Line is located at

 

A) 180° longitude B) Standard meridian
C) Equator D) Greenwich meridian
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 180° longitude

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Which one of the following with regard to the term ‘bank run’ is correct?

 

A) The net balance of money a bank has in its chest at the end of the day’s business B) The ratio of bank’s total deposits and total liabilities
C) A panic situation when the deposit holders start withdrawing cash from the banks D) The period in which a bank creates highest credit in the market
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) A panic situation when the deposit holders start withdrawing cash from the banks

Explanation:

A bank run occurs when a large number of people withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may cease to function soon.

A banking panic or bank panic is a financial crisis that occurs when many banks suffer runs at the same time, as people suddenly try to convert their threatened deposits into cash or try to get out of their domestic banking system altogether.

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Which of the following awards was conferred on Mrs. Kiran Bedi

A) Saraswati B) Golden Globe
C) Magsaysay D) Rani Lakshmi
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Magsaysay

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Several computers linked to a server to share programs and storage space________

A) Network B) Grouping
C) Library D) Integrated system
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Network

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