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Posted By: Asma S Patel Member Level: Gold Posted Date: 06 Jun 2008
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2006 CBSE Economics — 2006 (Set I — Delhi) Question paper
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SECTION - A
Q. 1. Answer the following questions: (1 x 4 = 4)
When is a good called an ‘inferior good’?
Define marginal cost.
When is the supply of a commodity called ‘elastic’?
Define marginal physical product.
Q. 2. What is meant by consumer’s equilibrium? State its condition in case of a single commodity. (3)
Q. 3. State the ‘total expenditure method’ of measuring price elasticity of demand. (3)
Q. 4. What is meant by returns to a factor ? State the law of diminishing returns to a factor. (3)
Q. 5. State any three causes of a rightward shift of supply curve. (3)
Q. 6. The price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 2. When its price falls from Rs. 10 to Rs. 8 per unit, its quantity supplied falls by 500 units. Calculate the quantity supplied at the reduced price. (4)
Q. 7. What change in total revenue will result in
a decrease in marginal revenue, and
an increase in marginal revenue? (4)
Q. 8. Explain the problem of ‘what to produce’ with the help of an example.
Or
Why does an economic problem arise? Explain the problem of ‘how to produce’. (4)
Q. 9.Why is the average revenue curve of a firm under perfect competition parallel to x and negatively sloped under monopoly? (4)
Q. 10. The total fixed cost of a firm is Rs. 12. Given below is its marginal cost schedule. Calculate total cost and average variable cost for each given level of output. (6)
Output (units) 1 2 3 4 5 6
Marginal cost (RS.) 9 7 2 4 8 12
Q. 11. State three causes each for a rightward shift and a leftward shift of demand curve.
Q. 12. How is the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of a normal commodity affected by an increase in the income of its buyers? Explain with the help of a diagram.
Or
At a given price of a commodity, there is ‘excess demand’. Is this price an equilibrium price? If not, how will the equilibrium price be reached? (Use diagram) (6)
SECTION - B
Q. 13. Answer the following questions: (1 x 4 = 4)
Define macroeconomics.
In a government budget, revenue deficit is Rs. 50,000 crores and borrowings are Rs. 75,000 crores. How much is the fiscal deficit’?
When will balance of trade show a deficit?
Why is the study of the problem of unemployment in India considered a macroeconomic study?
Q. 14. From the following data, calculate “gross value added at factor cost”. (3)
(Rs. in lakhs)
Sales
Rent
Subsidies
Change in stock
Purchase of raw materials
Profits
180
5
10
15
100
25
Q. 15. Explain the meaning of investment multiplier. What can be its minimum value and why? (3)
Q. 16. Define aggregate demand. State its components. (3)
Q. 17. State the basis of classifying government expenditure into revenue and capital expenditure. Give an example of each. (3)
Q. 18. Explain any one of the following functions of a central bank:
Currency authority, and
lender of last resort.
Or
Explain the ‘acceptance of deposits’ function of a commercial bank. (4)
Q. 19. Giving reasons, categories the following into revenue receipts and capital receipts: (4)
Recovery of loans
Corporation tax
Dividends on investment made by government
Sale of a public sector undertaking
Q. 20. What is meant by foreign exchange rate ? Why does a rise in foreign exchange rate causes a rise in its supply? (4)
Q. 21. Explain the ‘store of value’ function of money. (4)
Q. 22. From the following data calculate national income by
income method and
expenditure method:(2,4)
Rs.(in Crores)
Private final consumption expenditure
Net capital formation
Change in stock
Compensation of employees
Rent
Interest
Operating surplus
Net indirect tax
Employers’ contribution to social security schemes
Net exports
Net factor income from abroad
Government final consumption expenditure
Consumption of fixed capital
2,000
400
50
1,900
200
150
720
400
100
20
(-) 20
600
100
Or
From the following data calculate: (3,3)
Private income, and
Personal disposable income
(Rs. in lakhs)
Income from domestic product accruing to the private sector
Savings of non-departmental public enterprises
Current transfers from government administrative departments
Savings of private corporate sector
Current transfers from rest of the world
Net factor income from abroad
Corporation tax
Direct personal taxes
4,000
200
150
400
50
(-) 40
60
140
Q. 23. Draw on a diagram a straight line savings curve for an economy. From it derive the consumption curve, explaining the method of derivation. Show a point on the consumption curve at which average-propensity to consume is equal to 1. (6)
Q. 24. Will the following factor incomes be included in domestic factor income of India ? Give reasons for your answer. (6)
Compensation of employees to the residents of Japan working in Indian embassy in Japan.
Profits earned by a branch of foreign bank in India.
Rent received by an Indian resident from Russian embassy in India.
Profits earned by a branch of State Bank of India in England.
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