Questions for the 2nd interim control


1. Reproduction of capital and its types.
2. Types of costs.
3. Revenue of the company and its types.
4. General characteristics of perfect competition.
5. The volume of production of the company, profit-maximizing conditions of perfect competition.

6. General characteristics of monopolistic competition.

7. Advantages and disadvantages of monopoly. Antitrust regulation.

8. Demand for labor and the factors influencing it. Labor supply and the factors influencing it.

9. Supply and demand of land. Equilibrium in the market for land.

10. Types of rent and price of land.

11. The national economy as a system.

12. Main indicators of the national accounts.

13. Methods of calculating GDP.

14. Formal and informal economy.
15. Economic cycle and its phases.

16. Types of economic crises.

17. Nature and types of inflation.
18. Socio-economic effects of inflation

19. Indicators and ways to overcome inflation.
20. Unemployment and its types. Okun's law.
21. Aggregate demand and its determining factors.
22. Aggregate supply and the factors determining it.
23. Equilibrium conditions in the national economy.
24. Taxes and their types. Principles of taxation. Laffer curve.
25. The effectiveness of fiscal policy.
26. State budget: structure, types of balancing.
27. Public debt and ways to overcome it.
28. Money, their nature and function.
29. Demand for money.
30. The supply of money in the economy.
31. Money market and the conditions of equilibrium.
32. Banks and banking system.
33. Commercial banks and their role in the economy.
34. Goals and objectives of monetary policy. Tools and transmission mechanism of monetary policy.
35. The main activities of the National Bank of Kazakhstan.
36. Economic growth and its essence.
37. Sources of economic growth.
38. The economic functions of the state in a market economy.
39. Finance and financial system.
40. The world market and the international division of labor.
41. GNP and its types.

 

6. Tests to consolidate students' knowledge

 

1. If the supply and demand for goods grow simultaneously, then:

A) Price increases.

B) The total amount of goods increases.

C) Price remains constant.

D) Human well-being is improved.

E) Price reduced.

2. Measure response of one variable to changes in the other:

A) Mobility.

B) Adaptability

C) Flexibility.

D) Regression.

E) Transformation.

3. The relative change in the volume of real GNP over the period is characterized by:

A) Economic growth.

B) The economic crisis.

C) Simple reproduction.

D) The industrial cycle.

E) Depression.

4. Result of national production - is:

A) The gross national product.

B) Public revenue.

C) Goods and benefits.

D) Product.

E) Income.

5. "Open inflation" is characterized by growth:

A) Cash prices.

B) Trade deficit.

C) The values ​​of savings.

D) Investment volume.

E) Total listed above.

6. Unemployment during economic downturns is called:

A) Structural.

B) Congestive.

B) Сyclic.

C) Hide.

D) Clutches.

7. Production (economic) relations encompass the relationship between people is based on:

A) Production.

C) Distribution.

C) Exchange.

D) Consumption

E) All of the above in a single production cycle.

8 The process of production, considered in the continuous repetition and renewal, said:

A) Production.

B) Reproduction.

C) Exchange.

D) Distribution.

E) Consumption.

9. What capital is divided into fixed and circulating?

A) Industry.

B) Bank.

C) Cash.

D) Product.

E) Сonstant.

10. What is the means of production?

A) Part of the variable capital.

B) The labor and capital.

C) All of material resources.

D) A part of working capital.

E) Articles of labor and means of labor.

11. Supply of land:

A) Elastic.

B) Inelastic.

C) Infinitely elastic.

D) Inelastic.

E) Has unit elasticity.

12. What does cash payment for scholarships?

A) The measure of value.

B) Medium of exchange.

C) The means of payment.

D) The means of accumulation.

E) International money.

13. Budget exists:

A) Only the state.

B) The State and the real sector of the economy.

C) All of the economic agents.

D) In ​​the important structures of the state level.

E) Only foreign countries.

14. Concentration of supply of goods and services in the hands of the seller means:

A) Oligopoly.

B) Monopolistic competition

C) Monopoly.

D) Monophony.

E) Oligopoly.

15. What is the difference between the productions of reproduction?

A) Reproduction - constant repetition, constant renewal of the process of reproduction. Production - the process of wealth creation necessary for a society

B) Nothing, it does two similar concepts.

C) Reproduction - the process of wealth creation necessary for the existence of society, and the production - the constant repetition, the continuous renewal of the production process.

D) Production - the process of creating something, reproduction - the "resurrection" has long since lost production

E) Manufacturing - activities of industrial enterprises, reproduction - activity to the rural economy.

16. When problems are solved in part by the market, in part by the government, the economy:

A) Command.

C) Market.

C) Natural.

D) Mixed.

E) Monopoly.

17. Which of the following does not affect productivity growth?

A) Technological changes.

B) Increase in the number of workers.

C) The level of skill and knowledge workers.

D) The level of production.

E) The technological revolution.

18. That does not apply to the foreign trade policy of the state?

A) Protection.

B) Quotas.

C) Embargo.

D) Monetary policy.

E) Dumping.

19. Externalities cycle theory developed the following scientists:

A) U.Dzhevons.

B) A.Pigu.

C) Pareto.

D) Kassel.

E) G.Maltus.

20. Deductions for capital consumption is:

A) Depreciation

B) Net foreign investment.

C) The funds are intended to meet the personal needs of an indirect way.

D) Net investment.

E) Gross investment.

21. In which of the options included the fundamental questions addressed by any economic system?

A) What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?

B) What is consumed? What is consumed: for what purpose produced?

C) How to start to produce and how to organize production.

D) How to plan production and how to distribute the products in society

E) What products to produce, how to distribute the products, and who will be a consumer product.

22. Responsibility for decisions rests with:

A) Entrepreneur.

B) Tax Inspectorate.

C) Accountant.

D) The State.

E) Social organizations.

23. The composition of GDP includes:

A) The cost of a new textbook in a local bookstore.

B) Services housewife.

C) Purchase of bonds from the corporation.

D) Buy a used car from a neighbor.

E) The natural wealth of the country.

24. The numerical value of any of the following indicators falls after the recovery phase and increases after the phase of recession?

A) The volume of inventories in the manufacturing industry.

B) GNP.

C) The average workweek.

D) Exchange of securities.

E) The volume of industrial production.

25. The overall goal of the company:

A) Profit.

B) Preparation of state subsidies.

C) Social protection.

D) Benefits in taxation.

E) The production of public goods.

26. What economic system builds Kazakhstan?

A) A social market economy.

B) State-planned.

C) The market, free competition.

D) Mixed.

E) Traditional.

27. The economic growth is often a serious problem as:

A) Increase the initiative of private entrepreneurs.

B) Equal distribution of income.

C) Strengthening the role of the state.

D) The deterioration of international relations.

E) Increasing the degree of pollution.

28. Specialization of individual countries in the production of certain products that countries are sharing:

A) The conclusion of an international treaty.

B) International trade.

C) International communication.

D) International labor migration.

E) The international division of labor.

29. Which is not typical for the period of the gradient?

A) Decrease in investments.

B) The growth of production.

C) Increase in loans.

D) Reduction of unemployment.

E) Reduction of inflation.

30. Circulating productive assets is:

A) Material resources are fully used within a production cycle and are included in the price of finished products.

B) Created in the production of finished products.

C) Buildings and equipment.

D) Ready to ship finished goods to customers.

E) The material means transferring their value during the production cycle in parts.

31. If you change the "most in demand":

A) Changes the value of demand at constant prices.

B) At constant price changes in quantity demanded.

C) Changes the demanded quantity and price.

D) The level of demand and the price does not change,

E) The level of demand and the price change in the opposite direction.

32. The supply curve shows that between price and the quantity established in the following relationship:

A) Direct.

B) Inversely proportional.

C) Contact.

D) Are directly proportional.

E) Geometric.

33. GDP growth without raising the means of production is called:

A) Intensity.

B) Extensively.

C) Stable.

D) Is zero.

E) Regressive.

34. The relationship of macroeconomic indicators of GDP and NNP can be represented by the following scheme:

A) CSL - GNP - depreciation.

B) NNP = GNP - indirect taxes

C) NNP - GDP - national income.

D) NNP = GNP + indirect taxes.

E) NNP = GNP + depreciation.

35. Unemployment - is:

A) This is the state of the labor market, which want to work can not find work at the regular rate of wages.

B) Individual performance ability of each person to work, which is not commonly used in the production process.

C) Part of the population of working age, having the physical and mental abilities, but for various reasons do not want to work.

D) The human capital formed man certain stock health, knowledge, skills, and abilities that are specifically used in a particular field.

E) The state of the labor market, corresponding as reasonably full employment in the economy.

36. Discrepancy between the amount of money and the quantity of goods in the economy:

A) Stagflation.

B) Inflation.

C) Contributions.

D) Segmentation.

E) Diversification.

37. The questions "What? How? For whom to produce?» Resolved in terms of:

A) The traditional economy.

C) Mixed economy.

C) A command economy.

D) The market economy.

E) Any economic system.

38. That does not include the production process?

F) Tools.

B) Items of work.

C) Labor.

D) Of consumption.

E) Working conditions.

39. For fixed assets are:

A) Capital, operating in the fields of material production.

B) Buildings, structures, machinery and equipment.

C) Raw materials, energy.

D) The labor force.

E) Capital functioning in the sphere of circulation.

40. Which of the following does not belong to their own sources of the company?

A) Loans and loans.

B) Operating Income.

C) Sinking fund.

D) Proceeds from the sale.

E) Income from financial operations.

41. Wages acts as

A) The price of labor.

C) Income owners of capital.

C) The income of the land owner.

D) The income of the entrepreneur.

E) Income shareholder.

42. What is the definition of "goods" you consider the most appropriate?

A) Food.

B) Production of industrial production.

C) It is the product of labor for the exchange.

D) All of that created by the labor.

E) Transport services.

43. Form of credit, which is provided in the form of long-term loans secured by real estate. This credit:

A) Commercial.

B) Bank.

C) Mortgage.

D) Consumer.

E) State.

44. Value - is embodied in the commodity labor at:

A) Maximum.

B) Minimum.

C) Statistics.

D) Social necessity.

E) The public interest.

45. If the production is carried out at the expense of the individual and in his interest, it's this:

A) Private property and private appropriation.

B) Collective ownership and collective appropriation.

C) Public ownership and public appropriation.

D) Public - collective ownership and private - collective appropriation.

E) State property state appropriation.

46. Which of the following cannot be attributed to intellectual property?

A) Know-how.

B) The project design.

C) Thinking labor.

D) The means of production.

E) Art works.

47. Which of the following does not affect the growth of labor productivity?

A) Technological changes.

B) Increase in the number of workers.

C) The level of skill and knowledge workers.

D) The level of production.

E) The technological revolution.

48. Foreign trade (or payments), the balance of a relationship between:

A) Factors of social production.

C) The amount of payments received from abroad and the amount transferred abroad for a certain period.

C) Payments and benefits from public consumption funds.

D) Nominal and real wages.

E) Monopoly profits.

49. Specify the type of unemployment associated with the trace of the economy:

A) Time.

B) Cyclic.

C) Structural.

D) Weekly.

E) Clutches.

50. Deductions for capital consumption - is:

A) Depreciation.

B) Net foreign investment.

C) The funds are intended to meet the personal needs of an indirect way.

D) Net investment.

E) Gross investment,

51. Not taken into account in reaching a decision about the optimal amount of production costs of the company:

A) Average fixed.

B) Average variable.

C) Limit.

D) Accounting.

E) Gross.

52. Resource pristine natural origin, which is capable of self-repair in a relatively wide range - is:

A) The environment.

B) Capital.

C) Work.

D) Minerals.

E) The economic resources.

53. How the factor markets affects the GDP:

A) The prices of production factors directly affect the value of nominal GNP,

D) Land as a factor of production is not affected by the value of GDP.

C) The price of production factors has no effect on GDP.

B) Labor as a factor of production is not affected by the value of GDP.

E) Capital as a factor of production is not affected by the value of GDP.

54. The numerical value of any of the following indicators falls after the recovery phase and increases after the phase of recession?

A) The volume of inventories in the manufacturing industry.

B) GNP.

C) The average workweek.

D) Exchange of securities.

E) The volume of industrial production.

55. The overall goal of the company:

A) Profit.

B) Preparation of state subsidies.

C) Social protection.

D) Benefits in taxation.

E) Production of public goods.

56. The law of demand is characterized by:

A) The direct dependence of demand on the level of prices.

B) The inverse dependence of demand on the level of prices.

C) The direct dependence of the price on the value of demand.

D) The inverse dependence of the price on the value of demand.

E) Unidirectional and the same change in the demand and prices.

57. Expresses the law of supply:

A) The direct relationship between price and quantity of goods sold.

B) The inverse relationship between price and quantity of goods sold.

C) The relationship between interchangeable and complementary goods.

D) Measure the elasticity of each product.

E) The dependence of the cost of supply of resources.

58. Which of the following is included in GDP?

A) Services housewife.

B) Buy a used car.

C) Purchase of new shares from a broker.

D) The cost of a new textbook in a local bookstore.

E) Purchase of bonds from the corporation.

59. Net national product does not include:

A) Payments for taxes on income.

B) Payments for depreciation.

C) Retained earnings.

D) Net exports.

E) Additional cost of intermediate goods (semi).

60. Full-time means:

A) Employment in the presence of friction in the economy and structural unemployment.

B) A situation in which unemployment is zero.

C) Having just cyclical unemployment.

D) The presence of only seasonal unemployment.

E) The presence of hidden unemployment.

61. The law of demand is characterized by:

A) The direct dependence of demand on the level of prices.

B) The inverse dependence of demand on the level of prices.

C) The direct dependence of the price on the value of demand.

D) The inverse dependence of the price on the value of demand.

E) Unidirectional and the same change in the demand and prices.

62. Expresses the law of supply:

A) The direct relationship between price and quantity of goods sold.

B) The inverse relationship between price and quantity of goods sold.

C) The relationship between interchangeable and complementary goods.

D) Measure the elasticity of each product.

E) The dependence of the cost of supply of resources.

63. Which of the following is included in GDP?

A) Services housewife.

B) Buy a used car.

C) Purchase of new shares from a broker.

D) The cost of a new textbook in a local bookstore.

E) Purchase of bonds from the corporation.

64. Net national product does not include:

A) Payments for taxes on income.

B) Payments for depreciation.

C) Retained earnings.

D) Net exports.

E) Additional cost of intermediate goods (semi).

65. Full-time means:

A) Employment in the presence of friction in the economy and structural unemployment.

B) A situation in which unemployment is zero.

C) Having just cyclical unemployment.

D) The presence of only seasonal unemployment.

E) The presence of hidden unemployment.

66. Which of the following can be attributed to causes Inflation in Kazakhstan during the transition period?

A) Trade deficit as a result of reduced production in the national economy.

B) Lack of expenditure on the production of energy and labor.

C) The effect of state fiscal policy.

D) The stability of commodity prices.

E) Lack of funds.

67. What is a problem faced by all the economic system?

A) Lack of investment.

B) Non-compliance of production and consumption.

C) Volatility in prices.

D) Scarcity.

E) The growth of labor productivity.

68. What is not part of the productive forces?

A) Items of work.

B) The means of labor.

C) People who have production experience and skills to work.

D) Commodities.

E) The means of production.

69. The accumulation of capital through:

A) Production

B) Appeals.

C) Distribution.

D) Consumption.

E) Investment.

70. Investment - is:

A) Part of income not expended in the current year.

B) Investments in all kinds of industrial and non-industrial resources.

C) The acquisition of real estate.

D) Purchase of durable goods, as well as currency and gold.

E) Deferred expenses.

71. Costs that vary in direct proportion to the volume of production:

A) Opportunity costs.

B) Fixed costs.

C) Variable costs.

D) Total cost.

E) Rent.

72. Specify the definition of commodity production:

A) Production for exchange, for sale.

B) The production of wealth based on private property.

C) Production of products for immediate consumption products.

D) The production of material goods to meet the needs of society.

E) Manufacturing products to meet societal needs through the purchase and sale in the market.

73. The amount accumulated in the country over a period of budget deficits, net of accumulated budget surplus is:

A) State budget.

B) The public debt.

C) Balance of payments.

D) State income.

E) The state budget expenditures.

74. Enter the negative aspects of the market:

A) There is no guarantee of full employment of labor.

B) Does not fully satisfy the needs.

C) To more quickly implement new technologies.

D) Creating conditions for the development of human capital.

E) There is no guarantee safety.

75. In which of the options included the fundamental questions addressed by any economic system?

A) What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?

Q) What is consumed? What is consumed: the objectives for which they?

C) How to start to produce and how to organize production.

D) How to plan production and how to distribute the products in the community.

E) What products to produce, how to distribute the products, and who will be a consumer product.

76. What economic system builds Kazakhstan?

A) Social market economy.

B) State-planned.

C) The market, free competition.

D) Mixed.

E) Traditional.

77. The economic growth is often a serious problem as:

A) Increase the initiative of private entrepreneurs.

B) Equal distribution of income.

C) Strengthening the role of the state.

D) The deterioration of international relations.

E) Increasing the degree of pollution.

78. Specialization of individual countries in the production of certain products that countries are sharing:

A) The conclusion of an international treaty.

B) International trade.

C) International communication.

D) International labor migration.

E) The international division of labor.

79. Which is not typical for the period of the gradient?

A) Decrease in investments.

B) The growth of production.

C) Increase in loans.

D) Reduction of unemployment.

E) Reduction of inflation.

80. Circulating productive assets - is:

A) Material resources are fully used for one production cycle and are included in the price of finished products.

B) Created in the production of finished products.

C) Buildings and equipment.

D) Ready to ship finished goods to customers.

E) The material means transferring their value during the production cycle in parts.

81. Fixed costs - is:

A) The costs incurred by the company, even if the products are not produced.

B) Implicit costs.

C) Minimum cost of production of any product under the most favorable conditions of production.

D) The cost of resources and prices in effect at the time of purchase.

E) Payments to workers in general, the owners of the land, the owners of capital and entrepreneurs.

82. What is the demand?

A) The need for customers that the presence of means of payment.

B) Any customer needs for this product.

C) The amount of options and purchase goods according to the established price for it.

D) The potential purchase, depending on many factors, inflation, the panic, the considerations of prestige.

C) The need of the product to the consumer

83. If two products are interchangeable, the increase in prices for the first product will:

A) The demand for the goods.

B) An increase in demand for the second product.

C) The increase in the demand for the second product.

D) The fall in quantity demanded for a second product.

E) The price remains stable.

84. National product - is:

A) Consumer population.

B) Profits from the sale of national products.

C) Material wealth produced in society at certain time.

D) Product required state.

E) Retail trade and catering.

85. That characterizes the relations of production of primitive society?

A) Joint ownership and use of the means of production.

B) The exploitation of man by man.

C) The alienation of the worker from the means of production.

D) The distribution according to work.

E) Development of exchange relations.

86. Unemployment during economic downturns is called:

A) Structural.

B) Congestive.

C) is cyclic.

D) Is hidden.

E) Clutches.

87. Investment - is:

A) Revenue from product sales.

B) The cost of acquisition of consumer goods.

C) The cost of development of the industry.

D) expenses for the development of agriculture.

E) The costs of providing economic development.

88. Not included in GDP, calculated on the amount of costs:

A) Wages and salaries.

B) Gross investment.

C) Net exports of goods and services.

D) With + I + G (C - consumer spending; I-investment; G-state spending).

E) Net investment.

89. The most important reason for economic growth in developed countries:

A) Technological changes in production.

B) The increase in working hours.

C) The increase in capital employed.

D) The implementation of monetary and fiscal policies to promote economic growth.

E) The growth of the workforce.

90. Indirect taxes include:

A) Value added tax and excise duties.

B) Corporate income tax.

C) Income tax.

D) Property tax.

E) The tax on cars.

91. How wills the revenue with higher price if the elasticity Ed> 1:

A) Is reduced.

B) Will increase.

C) No change.

D) Are not associated with the elasticity of demand.

E) On the level of unit elasticity.

92. Enter the product inelastic demand:

A) Petrol.

B) Complex home appliances.

C) Car.

D) Furniture.

E) Securities foods.

93. Personal income - is:

A) After the payment of individual income taxes.

B) Income before income taxes individual.

C) Wages.

D) Income.

F) Interest.

94. GNP (gross national product) by the flow of "cost" is calculated as:

A) GDP = C + I + Nx.

B) GDP = Nx + P + I.

C) GDP = Nx + C + I + G.

D) GDP = W + R + I + R.

E) GDP = W + C + I.

95. Engineer «X» left by "SAV", to get a better paying job. This should be taken into account when calculating:

A) How to frictional and structural unemployment.

B) Cyclical unemployment.

C) Frictional unemployment.

D) Structural unemployment.

E) As frictional and cyclical unemployment.

96. How is the process of reducing inflation?

A) Depression.

B) The devaluation.

C) Diversification.

D) Deflation.

E) Sabotage.

97. Select the function that is not relevant to the functions of economic theory:

A) Cognitive.

B) Practical.

C) Methodological.

D) The intermediary.

E) Critical.

98. What is studying economics?

A) The relation of man to nature.

B) The ratio of people to things.

C) The laws of economic development and industrial relations.

D) The ratio of people to science.

E) Manufacturing.

99. Capital, existing in three functional forms and passing successive three stages are:

A) Industry.

C) Trading

C) Loan.

D) Land.

E) Product.

100. Physical wear and tear - is:

A) The loss of value due to productivity growth and technological progress.

B) Reducing the cost of machines of the same design.

C) The displacement of old cars with new, more productive.

D) Loss of use value as a result of the productive performance or omission.

E) Deliberate damage.

 

 

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