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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'LECTURER IN ECONOMICS KERALA COLLEGIATE EDUCATION' And exam conducted in the year 2014. And Question paper code was '055/2014'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
(= Which of the following theories is a special case of the theory of Second Best?
(५) Free Trade Area (B) Customs Union
(©) Common Market (D) European Union
55, In which year was Contingency Credit Line introduced by IMF?
(^) 1996 (B) 1997
(9 1998 @™ 1999
86. Who found that BoP disequilibria were settled mostly by international capitai flows rather
than through Gold Shipments?
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Tinbergen
Mundell
Taussig
Swan
57. As per CRISIL rating symbols, ‘B’ is the rate given to those capital market securities whose
risk can be rated as :
(ക High nsk
(C) Norisk
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(0)
Substantial risk
None of the above
58. The oldest and most accepted argument for protection which was formulated in 1790 :
(A) رق
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Diversification argument Anti-dumping argument
Terms of trade argument
Infant industry argument
59. Which of the following is not among the theories of Optimum currency area?
(A) Mundell’s factor mobility theory
(18) Kravis' theory of availability
(£) Kenen's product diversification theory
(D) Wood's cost-benefit theory
60. When the speculators feel that the domestic interest rates will increase in future, they will be
keenly interested to invest in :
(4) Short term securities
(C) Long term securities
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Medium term securities
Both (A) and (C)
61. Linear Programming Problem [LPP] was daveloped by :
(ക) Gauss Markov (1) பலா Dantzig
(C) Wassily Leontief (D} Bruce Greenwald
62. Engel ageregation condition implies that the sum of income elasticities of two goods x and y
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(0)
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negative positive
760 one
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