The 'Index of Industrial Production' uses which base year currently? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

The 'Index of Industrial Production' uses which base year currently?
A. 2015-16
B. 2011-12
C. 2004-05
D. 2019-20
Answer: Option B
Solution (By JKSSB Mock Tests)
IIP uses base year 2011-12.

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Question #1
Which of the following is a characteristic of the 'Quality Ladder' models of endogenous growth?
A. Innovation takes the form of improvements in the quality of existing products
B. Growth is purely exogenous
C. Innovation only expands the variety of products
D. There is no role for research and development

Correct Answer: Option A


Explanation:
Quality-ladder (or vertical-innovation) models of endogenous growth, associated with Aghion-Howitt and Grossman-Helpman, treat innovation as successive improvements in the quality of intermediate or final goods.

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Question #2
Moral suasion by the RBI refers to:
A. raising reserve requirements
B. buying securities from banks
C. legal penalties on banks
D. persuasion and advice to banks to follow monetary policy objectives

Correct Answer: Option D


Explanation:
Moral suasion is a non-statutory instrument of persuasion by the RBI to influence bank behaviour.

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Question #3
The concept of 'Mental Accounting' in behavioural economics refers to:
A. Only the national accounts
B. The perfect fungibility of all money
C. Only the formal accounting systems of firms
D. The tendency of individuals to categorise and treat money differently depending on its source or intended use

Correct Answer: Option D


Explanation:
Mental accounting describes the cognitive processes whereby individuals separate their wealth into non-fungible mental accounts, leading to behaviour that violates the principle of fungibility assumed in standard theory.

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