Investment
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Q31
Which macro-asset index tracks the total market valuation of all tangible fixed capital installations inside a nation's territorial boundaries, measuring net physical wealth?
Gross liquid money supply supply
Fixed capital stock index
Intermediate product balance sheet
Sovereign transfer account balance
Explanation
The fixed capital stock index tracks the accumulated aggregate volume of durable tangible assets (machinery, structures) that bolster long-term domestic output capacity.
Q32
Which type of investment mechanism maps the corporate choice to adjust physical capital stock layout based on the gap between the optimal desired capital level and current actual capital levels?
The Pigovian wealth model
The flexible accelerator model
The liquidity trap loop index
The autonomous transfer spending path
Explanation
The Flexible Accelerator Model of investment suggests that firms adjust their capital assets over time to close a specific portion of the gap between their actual capital stock and their target capital stock.
Q33
Which microeconomic curve plots the optimal combinations of inputs chosen by a firm as it expands its total production scale, holding input factor prices constant?
Isocost reference line
The firm's long-run expansion path
Engel consumption trajectory
Hicksian compensated utility axis
Explanation
The expansion path curves out the locus of cost-minimizing input combinations on a production map as the firm scales its output upward under stable factor pricing.
Q34
Which economic mechanism captures the structural loss in an economy's total wealth stock caused by physical wear, tear, or obsolescence of capital machinery over a fiscal year?
Net asset arbitration
Depreciation or capital consumption allowance
Circulating asset expansion
Sunk accounting mitigation
Explanation
Depreciation (or capital consumption) measures the monetary value of capital decay, which must be offset by gross investment to prevent the net physical wealth stock from shrinking.
Q35
Which type of investment mechanism models corporate fixed capital spending as a dynamic adjustment process driven by Tobin's q-ratio?
The accelerator coefficient multiplier
Tobin’s q-theory of corporate investment
The Pigovian real balance matrix
The flexible lifecycle consumption path
Explanation
Tobin's q-theory states that if the market value of installed capital exceeds its replacement cost ($q > 1$), firms will increase capital investment spending to accumulate real wealth assets.
Q36
If an economy is undergoing structural 'capital widening' rather than capital deepening, what happens to the marginal product of capital ($MPK$) and output per worker profiles over time?
The MPK increases significantly boosting wages
The MPK and output per worker profiles remain constant
The capital stock drops below zero under depreciation
The marginal propensity to save equals capital dilution
Explanation
Capital widening scales capital inputs at the exact same rate as labor growth. This holds the capital-labor ratio constant, leaving the MPK and labor productivity flat over time.