R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Economics Economics Central Bank

Discount rate of State Bank of Pakistan is:

1. Less than 5%
2. More than 5% but not more than 15%
3. More than 15% but not more than 25%
4. More than 25%

✅ Correct Answer: 2

State Bank was established in:

1. 1948
2. 1950
3. 1952
4. 1954

✅ Correct Answer: 1

10-rupees note is issued by:

1. National Bank
2. State Bank
3. Govt. of Pakistan
4. Governor State Bank

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Acting as lender of last resort a central bank lends to:

1. Money markets
2. Stock exchange
3. Commercial banks
4. Does not lend

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which statement is true of the relationship between bond prices and bond yields?

1. They vary inversely
2. They vary directly
3. They are not related
4. They are related in long run and not in the short run

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which is the most widely used tool of monetary policy:

1. Clearing house
2. Open-market operations
3. Discount rate
4. Issuing of notes

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When the State Bank wants to decrease money supply in the country it:

1. Buys govt. securities in stock market
2. Sells govt. securities
3. Lowers discount rate
4. (b) and (c) of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Monetary policy consists of:

1. Decreasing taxes
2. Changing total money supply
3. Checking commercial banks
4. Printing of money

✅ Correct Answer: 2

State Bank of Pakistan has departments:

1. Issue and banking department
2. Issue and research departments
3. Banking and research department
4. Issue research and banking department

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Central bank s rate of landing to commercial banks is called:

1. Interest rate
2. Discount rate
3. Money rate
4. Control rate

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When a central bank wants to increase money supply in circulation:

1. Purchases govt. securities
2. Lowers bank rate
3. Directs banks to advance more loans
4. (a) and (b) of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

State Bank of Pakistan is run by:

1. Board of directors
2. Board of governors
3. Board of managers
4. Board of bankers

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Credit money is controlled by:

1. Government
2. Commercial banks
3. Central bank
4. Markets

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Every country establishes central bank to:

1. Issue notes
2. Supervise commercial banks
3. Give loans to businessmen
4. (a) and (b) of above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

It is NOT an instrument of monetary policy:

1. Bank rate
2. Open market operations
3. Change in reserve ratio
4. Issue notes

✅ Correct Answer: 4

It creates credit:

1. Central bank
2. Commercial banks
3. Government
4. Stock exchange

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is a monetary measure to increase employment

1. Increase in govt. expenditure
2. Reduce govt. expenditure
3. Increase in interest rate
4. Reducing interest rate

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In order to reduce consumer borrowing this is raised:

1. Commercial bank deposits
2. Government spending
3. Interest rate
4. The exchange rate

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which organisation controls the banking system in most countries?

1. Central bank
2. Commercial banks
3. Investment Bank
4. World Bank

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Treasury bill is used for

1. Getting short term loans
2. Getting long term loans
3. Treasry bill is not credit instrument
4. Treasury bill is a govt. tax bill

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Out of the following the only recognised legal tender is:

1. Cheque
2. Bank notes and coins
3. Bank notes and cheques
4. Credit card

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Open market operations is:

1. Buying and selling bills of exchange
2. Buying and selling govt. securities
3. Buying and selling shares of companies
4. Buying and selling foreign exchange

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Monetary policy has the objective:

1. Decrease unemployment rate
2. Decrease tax rate
3. Decrease inflation rate
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Every country establishes central bank to:

1. Issue currency
2. To prepare government budget
3. To extablish commercial banks
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

It is a monetary employment:

1. Increase in govt. expenditure
2. Increase govt. saving
3. Increase in interest rate
4. Reducing interest rate

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In order to reduce consumer borrowing:

1. Bank deposits are increased
2. Incomes of govt. employees are reduced
3. Interest rate is increased
4. Foreign exchange rate is reduced

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which organistion controls the banking system:

1. Central bank
2. Provincial bank
3. Investment Bank
4. World Bank

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The money called legal tender includes:

1. Currency notes and credit cards
2. Currency notes and bank deposits
3. Currency notes and cheque
4. Currency notes and coins

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Open market operations refer to:

1. Buying and selling of foreign currencies
2. Buying and selling govt. securities
3. Buying and selling shares in stock market
4. Buying and selling of goods in free market

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If SLR (statutaory liquidity ratio) is 20% and a bank gets a new deposit of 10 million the total increase in its deposits can rise up to:

1. 20 millions
2. 50 millions
3. 100 millions
4. 200 0millions

✅ Correct Answer: 2

State Bank policy of regulating interest rate is called:

1. Banking policy
2. Monetary policy
3. Fiscal policy
4. Commercial policy

✅ Correct Answer: 2