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A price is a ratio of exchange between:

A. Money and exchange

B. Quantity and production

C. Production and consumption

D. Money and quantity

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D. Money and quantity


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Indifference curves are downward sloping and are drawn bowed toward the origin (convex to the origin) implying:

A. Consumers prefer to have less satisfaction than more of both commodities

B. As more and more of one commodity is obtained, less and less of the other must be given up to keep satisfaction constant

C. The total satisfaction obtained along an indifference curve decreases at an increasing rate

D. None of the above

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A vertical supply curve parallel to the price axis implies that the elasticity of supply is:

A. Zero

B. Infinite

C. Equal to one

D. Greater than zero but less than infinite

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In sweezy model (kinked demand curve model), the overall increase in costs of production:

A. Do not effect equilibrium

B. Affect equilibrium

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above

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To calculate the elasticity of demand, which of the following formula is used?:

A. Percentage change in demand Original demand

B. Proportionate change in demand Proportionate change in price

C. Change in demand Change in price

D. None of the above

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The model which gives us information about price and output changes in different periods is:

A. Stable cobweb model

B. Perpetual oscillation

C. Both(a) and(b)

D. None of them

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The basic subject matter of economics is:

A. Money

B. Capital resources

C. Scarcity

D. Inflation

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The proportional demand curve in monopolistic competition (also in kinked demand curve model), is like industry demand curve in:

A. Monopolistic competition

B. Imperfect competition

C. Monopoly

D. Perfect competition

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Elasticity (E) expressed by the term, 8 >E>1, is:

A. Perfectly elastic (infinitely elastic)

B. Relatively elastic (greater than one elasticity)

C. Unitary elastic

D. Relatively inelasticity (less than one elasticity)

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A market demand curve presumes that:

A. All consumers are alike

B. Incomes of all consumers is the same

C. Tastes of all consumers are the same

D. Consumers differ in taste, incomes and other matters

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If the production increases under decreasing returns to scale, the cost will:

A. Increase at decreasing rate

B. Increase at constant rate

C. Decrease at increasing rate

D. Increase at increasing rate

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The budget line is described by each of the following except:

A. Prices of products are assumed to be fixed

B. The consumer need not to spend all his income

C. Consumer income is assumed to be fixed

D. The slope represents relative prices

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The act of producing the output from more than one plant is concerned with:

A. Monopoly

B. Multi-plant monopoly

C. Bilateral monopoly

D. Price discrimination

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The number of firms in monopolistic competition normally range between:

A. 14 to 28

B. 14 to 80

C. 14 to 38

D. 14 to 60

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The demand curve of ostentation goods (Veblen goods) will be:

A. Negatively sloped

B. Positively sloped

C. Parallel to X-axis

D. None of the above

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According to Smith, by value we mean the value with respect to use, and the price we mean the value with respect to:

A. Production

B. Consumption

C. Exchange

D. Formation

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A monopoly producer has:

A. Control over production but not over price

B. Control neither on production nor on price

C. Control over consumers

D. Control over production as well as over price

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When total revenue is maximum in monopoly, elasticity of demand is:

A. E =1

B. E >1

C. E <1

D. E =0

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In case of monopoly, when total revenue is maximum:

A. MR is positive

B. MR falls

C. MR rises

D. MR is zero

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In joint-profit maximization cartel, central agency sets the:

A. Output

B. Input

C. Demand

D. Price

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Now-a-days in real life, we are unable to fined:

A. Monopoly

B. Perfect competition

C. Imperfect competition

D. Monopolistic competition

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J.R.Hicks was:

A. Neo-classical economist

B. Classical economist

C. Keynesian economist

D. Post-Keynesian economist

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When a consumer is satisfied with his spending pattern, he is said to be in:

A. Balance stat

B. Equilibrium

C. Disequilibrium

D. Authenticated form

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For the given production function, technical efficiency is defined as:

A. Sets of points relating production function that maximizes output given input (labor) i.e. Q = f(L, K)

B. Sets of points relating production function that produces less output than possible for a given set of input (labor) i.e. Q < f(L, K)

C. Use of imported technology

D. None of the above

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We get constant returns to scale when:

A. a = ½

B. � = ½

C. Both of them

D. None of them

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Economics is a:

A. Physical science

B. Social science

C. Natural science

D. Basic science

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When elasticity of demand is less than one (e<1), then following the formula MR=P[1-1/e], the MR will:

A. Positive

B. Negative

C. Zero

D. None of the above

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The main contribution of Alfred Marshal is in the field of:

A. Research in mathematical economics

B. Economics of labor

C. Theory of production

D. Theory of demand

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Price leadership is associated with:

A. Collusive oligopoly

B. Non-collusive oligopoly

C. Cartel

D. Perfect competition

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Who wrote A Contribution to the Theory of Trade Cycle?

A. N.Kaldor

B. J.R.Hicks

C. A.C.Pigou

D. J.M.Keynes

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Nash equilibrium says:

A. I am doing the best, I can given what you are doing

B. You are doing the best, you can given what I am doing

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above