DSE 2013 Answer Key 29.
(b) (4, 0, 5)
Prepared by: Amit Kumar Goyal1
30.(c) either (a) or (b)
31.(b) θ = 3T /M
1.(d) None of the above necessarily holds
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2.(a) [8, 10] 32.(d) −1
β
3.(c) between 0 and 10, 10 and 20, 20 and 30 (1 − r)
33.(e) N
4.(d) 100/3 (1 + r)2
34.(c) the above allocation is ‘No-envy allocation’ if α ≥
5.(a) −2 5
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6.(d) prefer to buy the lottery if and only if p > 51/221
35.(d) Pareto optimal if α ≥ 5
a+c
7.(a) p1 = p2 = 36.(c) Rich choose (iii) and Middle class choose (ii)
2−b
a + c − bc 37.(d) w2 − c from Rich, and v1 from Middle class
8.(c) p1 = p2 =
2(1 − b) 38.(d) 0 and 1 are the only Pareto optimal locations
9.(a) Rising before 1991 but falling after 1991 39.(b) px > 0 and py > 0
10.(b) Growing faster than mean consumption per- 40.(d) py = px > 0
capita according to NSS
41.(c) A and B are independent if exactly one of them
1 has positive probability
11.(a)
2
42.(d) above 4 and less than 5
log 2
12.(c) 43.(c) The Lorenz curves for the two distributions cross
0.015
each other
13.(a) R2 is zero.
44.(b) 76
14.(a) Log of the geometric mean of wages
45.(c) 1/3
15.(b) 100
4 −2
46.(c) e
16.(c) under flexible exchange rates when the exchange 3
rate rises (depreciates) above and then falls down
47.(c) β̂ = 0 or all x’s are constant
to equilibrium after a monetary expansion
48.(c) α̂ will change but β̂ will not
17.(b) has a greater impact on income than in a closed
economy 49.(c) The OLS estimated coefficients will be unbiased
and so will their estimated standard errors be-
18.(c) money wages do not immediately change when cause the error variance is not related to x
the price level changes
50.(d) Any of the above
19.(b) real revenue created by printing new money
51.(c) 10,000
20.(c) increase the level on income and lower the inter-
est rate 52.(b) there is a trade deficit
21.(d) has exactly 1 real root 53.(b) can attain this by increasing the tax rate to 4/5
22.(b) concave on (−1, 2), convex on (−∞, −1) and 54.(a) 5000 units
(2, ∞) 55.(c) the LM curve will be flatter and fiscal policy
would be more effective
23.(c) x = 3
56.(b) the neoclassical property of diminishing returns
24.(c) 1/26
to each factor
25.(b) f is a linear transformation, but g is not a linear 57.(c) yt = αkt + β
transformation
dk
26.(b) x = 6π/(4 + π) 58.(b) = sαkt + sβ − nkt
dt
27.(b) equals 27/99 59.(a) 8
28.(a) (0, 5, 4) 60.(a) unambiguously increases the steady state value
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