Pubali Bank Senior,Junior Officer /Officer(Cash)-2014

Economics and Banking

1. The marshall-lerner condition states that a devaluation will improve a country's balance of payments if me sum of elasticity of demand for exports and imports is:

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1. zero

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2. equal to one

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3. greater than one

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4. less than one

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2. A country with a current account surplus

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1. is using foreign saving to supplement domestic saving in financing investment projects

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2. is using part of its domestic saving to lend overseas rather than finance domestic investment

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3. is accumulating foreign debt

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4. is accumulating capita! at a pace higher than it's domestic saving rate

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3. The effective rate of protection measures

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1. the percentage by which domestic producers' gross receipts are increased by protection

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2. the percentage increase in domestic producers value added that is due to protection

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3. the benefit that the government gets from imposing tariffs

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4. the costs imposed by a tariff on the consumers of the imported good.

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4. There will be no crowding out if

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1. The demand for money increases as real GDP increases.

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2. The supply of money is totally unresponsive to changes in the interest rate.

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3. investment is totally unresponsive to changes in the interest rate

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4. investment is totally unresponsive to changes in the real GDP

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5. In 2008 the exchange rate of the Euro appreciated against the US dollar. A possible cause for the appreciation of the Euro was

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1. Increase investment in USA by the European Union(EU)

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2. Increasingly more US tourists were visiting EU countries

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3. Increasingly more US exports to EU countries

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4. The European Central Bank raised the value of the Euro

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