Public Economics

How many steps does the public expenditure management process include?

• 7

• 6

• 5

• 4

Public goods scale is optimal when

• MRT=MRS1-MRS2

• MRT=MRS1xMMRS2

• MST= MRS2/MRS1

• MRT=MRS1+MRS2

Which is not an effect of public expenditure

•  Foreign trade effect

• Encourage or inhibit an economic activity

• Solve market failures

• Impact on the supply-demand relationship

With a defined scale of public spending, the higher the propotion, the greater the DWL and the lower the efficiency of public expenditure ?

• True

• False

How many principles of project evaluation according to CBA method?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Public expenditure in a broad sense is the total cost of public activities through the state budget

• True

• False

The national demand for public goods easily …..because every locality wants to be allocated more or earlier budget than other places.

• correct and distorted

• misleading and increase

• misleading and distorted

• increase rapidly

Which following answer shows the correct full definition of CMA?

• a systematic process for calculating and comparing the benefits and costs of a policy project, or government decision

•  a form of economic analysis that compares the costs and outcomes (effects) of two or more projects

•  a scale to illustrate the most and the least effective among different programs

• a tool to compare the costs of different projects or programs which produces the same benefits (results)

How many purposes does CBA have in measuring efficiency of public expenditure?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which following answer is not included in the Quasi-experimental method in measuring efficiency of public expenditure?

• Compare three or more groups in different conditions

• Identify and measure the effect of the project/program

• Create a treatment group which participate in the treatment and a control group which does not

• A, B and C are all included in the Quasi-experimental method