This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Financial Economics > Financial Economics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Financial Economics Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. High reserve requirements A) Lower the money supply. B) Increase the money supply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lower the money supply. 2. Financial institutions are less likely to develop new and innovative financial products when there is an increased demand for Sharia-compliant financial products A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 3. ..... is also called narrow money. A) M0. B) M2. C) M1. D) M3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) M1. 4. Liquidity also known as ..... A) How particular asset converted to cash. B) Asset or store of value. C) Something containing economic value. D) Price you pat to borrow money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How particular asset converted to cash. 5. If government spending exceeds tax collections, A) There is a budget deficit. B) There is a budget surplus. C) Private saving is positive. D) Public saving is positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is a budget deficit. 6. What are the two key functions of a central bank? A) 1.To maintain financial stability2.To maintain macroeconomic stability. B) 1.To maintain financial stability2.To maintain microeconomic stability. C) 1.To maintain global stability2.To maintain macroeconomic stability. D) 1.To meet all objectives of the country2.To maintain macroeconomic stability. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.To maintain financial stability2.To maintain macroeconomic stability. 7. Bitcoin may not be considered good money because it is not A) Difficult to forge. B) Commonly accepted. C) Limited in supply. D) Portable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commonly accepted. 8. In takaful insurance, the concept of mutual cooperation plays a central role. Participants come together and pool their resources to provide financial protection and support to one another. They contribute to a common takaful fund based on the principles of solidarity and shared responsibility. This fund is utilized to compensate any participant who suffers a loss or damage A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. The process by which banks increase the money supply is known as money creation. The amount by which the money supply can increase depends on their liquidity ratio. If the bank decides to hold a lower liquidity ratio the bank multiplier will ..... A) Increase. B) Reduce. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase. 10. In regulatory arbitrage, a special purpose vehicle may be created by a conventional bank A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. To maintain financial stability a central bank may have to provide emergency funds, though at a price, to protect depositors and in extreme cases to prevent a systemic crisis in the financial system.What the term used to describe this? A) Lender of last resort. B) Lender of past resort. C) Lender of first resort. D) Lender of penultimate resort. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lender of last resort. 12. The ability to produce value and then acquire goods and services at a later date is money's function as ..... A) A medium of exchange. B) A unit of account. C) A store of value. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A store of value. 13. What is the IMF? A) International Monetary Fund. B) Intelligent Monkey Foundation. C) International Military Foundation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) International Monetary Fund. 14. Assume that businesses feel pessimistic about the future and therefore do not want to buy as much real capital (machines to help production) as before. To buy machines, businesses borrow money from banks. Because they don't want the machines, they do not want to borrow as much money as before. How would this affect the loanable funds market? A) Demand for loanable funds increases. B) Demand for loanable funds decreases. C) There is no change to demand for loanable funds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demand for loanable funds decreases. 15. The provision of small-scale loans to the poor for example by credit unions A) Remittance management. B) Micro-credit. C) Microfinancing. D) Micro-savings. E) Micro-insurance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Micro-credit. 16. The aim of quantitative easing is to: A) Increase bank lending leading to higher investment. This should stimulate economic growth. B) Increase bank lending leading to higher investment. This should decrease Unemployment rate. C) Decrease bank lending leading to higher investment. This should stimulate more employment. D) Decrease bank lending leading to higher investment. This should stimulate economic growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase bank lending leading to higher investment. This should stimulate economic growth. 17. Three-country trade agreement negotiated by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States A) The UN. B) IMF. C) NAFTA. D) NATO. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NAFTA. 18. Macroprudential regulation focuses not on a single financial institution but on the financial system as whole, and which monitors its impact on the wider economy. Is this statement true or false? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. A major technological break through would lead to A) An increase in DLF. B) A decrease in DLF. C) A decrease in SLF. D) An increase in SLF. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An increase in DLF. 20. Acting as a Government's bank means A) All the government departments have an account at the Central Bank. B) All the members of parliament have an account at the Central Bank. C) Prime Minister has an account tat Central Bank. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All the government departments have an account at the Central Bank. 21. The amount of banknotes issued by the Bank of England depends largely on the demand for notes from the general public. Is this statement true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. When money is not used and goods and services are exchanged for other goods and services, this system is called: A) Money. B) Credit. C) Barter. D) Checks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barter. 23. Quantitative Easing:Increasing the money supply and using these electronically created funds to buy government bonds or other securities. A) Done by Central Bank. B) Done by commercial Bank. C) Done by Investment bank. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Done by Central Bank. 24. Islamic finance is a prohibitions-driven industry A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. The loanable funds theory of interest rate determination makes certain important modifications in the classical theory. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 26. The slope of the demand for loanable funds curve represents the A) Positive relation between the real interest rate and investment. B) Negative relation between the real interest rate and investment. C) Positive relation between the real interest rate and saving. D) Negative relation between the real interest rate and saving. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative relation between the real interest rate and investment. 27. If a large segment of the population expects their income to fall in the future A) A decrease in DLF. B) An increase in SLF. C) An increase in DLF. D) A decrease in SLF. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An increase in SLF. 28. What is the key term for small scale financial support from banks to help the poor to set up small scale businesses? A) Debt relief. B) Microfinance. C) Tariffs. D) Aid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microfinance. 29. A 'run on the bank' occurs when A) Depositors want to withdraw more money than can be paid out. B) The value of a bank's assets in loans and securities plummet. C) The Central Bank implements a reserve requirement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depositors want to withdraw more money than can be paid out. 30. How many countries are a part of the World Bank? A) 43 member countries. B) 189 member countries. C) 32 member countries. D) 169 member countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 189 member countries. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEconomics QuizzesFinance QuizzesFinancial Economics Quiz 1Financial Economics Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books