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If money income is given then consumer is in equilibrium when:

A. MU < P

B. MU >P

C. MU = P

D. MU = 0

Correct Answer :

C. MU = P


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In long run competitive equilibrium:

A. Every firm will earn economic profit

B. Every firm will incur losses

C. Every firm will earn only normal profit

D. The marginal firm will earn no profit

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The marginal revenue of a perfectly competitive firm is:

A. Equal to the prices of its products

B. Positively related to output

C. Negatively related to output

D. Always higher than marginal cost

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To get more revenue, a Finance Minister impose tax on that commodity which has:

A. Inelastic demand

B. Elastic demand

C. Unit elasticity

D. Zero elasticity

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Under monopolistic competition, in long-run there is:

A. Ban on exit

B. Ban on entry

C. Free entry

D. Free entry and exit

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The Substitution Effect (S.E) is always:

A. Negative

B. Zero

C. Positive

D. Infinite

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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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In the case of substitutes, the cross demand curve slopes

A. Downwards to the right

B. Upwards to the right

C. Backwards to the right

D. Inwards at the bottom

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In modern cost theory, AVC= b1 and MC= b1 in the range of:

A. Excess capacity

B. Reserve capacity

C. Limited capacity

D. None of the above

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A firm under perfect competition has:

A. An AR curve which is a horizontal straight line

B. An AR curve which slopes downward

C. An AR curve which has a kink

D. An AR curve shape of which cannot be predicted

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Extension (expansion) of demand means:

A. More quantity demanded at a lower price

B. More quantity demanded at a higher price

C. More quantity demanded at the same price

D. None of the above

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In economic term water is a:

A. Free good

B. Economic good

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

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The marginal revenues are derivatives of:

A. TR function

B. AR function

C. MR function

D. AP function

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The long run average cost curve is:

A. Cup-shaped

B. Oval-shaped

C. Saucer-shaped

D. Glass-shaped

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In Edgeworth model, price remains:

A. Constant

B. On increasing

C. Independent

D. Indeterminate

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MC is given by:

A. The slope of the TVC curve

B. The slope of the TVC curve but not the slope of the TC curve

C. The slope of the TC curve but not by the slope of the TVC curve

D. Either the slope of the TVC curve or the slope of the TC curve

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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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Labor Saving Technological Progress can be defined as:

A. Technological progress that causes to raise the marginal product of capital and labor in the same proportion

B. Technological progress that causes the marginal product of capital to increase relative to the marginal product of labor

C. Technological progress that causes the marginal product of labor to increase relative to the marginal product of capital

D. None of the above

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The Law of Equi-Marginal Utility refers to:

A. Marginal utility of commodity X

B. Marginal utility of commodity Y

C. Marginal utility per rupee spent on X and Y commodities

D. None of the above

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A monopoly producer usually earns:

A. Abnormal profits

B. Only normal profits

C. Neither profits nor losses

D. Profits and losses which are uncertain

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The firm is at equilibrium where:

A. Output is maximum

B. Profit is maximum

C. Revenues are maximum

D. Profit is minimum

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According to the principle of substitution?

A. Many goods have no effective substitutes

B. Nearly all goods have substitutes

C. The prices of substitute goods must be the same

D. Buyers will stop buying a good if its price rises

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General equilibrium is concerned with simultaneous equilibrium of:

A. Few economic agents

B. All the economic agents

C. Two economic agents

D. Many economic agents

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The demand curve of a firm in monopolistic competition is:

A. Negatively sloped

B. Vertical

C. Horizontal

D. Positively sloped

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Under pure monopoly, there will be:

A. No distinction between firm and industry

B. One firm and no industry

C. No firm and no industry

D. None of the above

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The short-run supply curve of the perfectly competitive firm is given by:

A. The rising portion of its MR over and above the break-even (shut-down) point

B. The rising portion of its MC over and above the break-even (shut-down) point

C. The rising portion of its MC over and above the AC curve

D. The rising portion of its MC curve

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Other things remaining the same, when a consumers income increases his equilibrium point moves to:

A. A lower indifference curve

B. A lower PPC curve

C. Remains on same indifference curve

D. A higher indifference curve

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Under monopoly and imperfect competition MC is:

A. More than the price

B. Less than the price

C. Equal to the price

D. Less than or equal to the price

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Substitution effect means a consumer

A. Shifts away from the commodity the price of which has fallen

B. Shifts in favour of a commodity the price of which has risen

C. Shifts away from a commodity the price of which has risen, in favour of a commodity the price of which has fallen

D. None of the above

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Under perfect competition, at equilibrium, marginal cost is:

A. Less than marginal revenue

B. Equal to marginal revenue

C. More than marginal revenue

D. None of the above

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A loss bearing firm will continue to produce in the short run so long as the price at least covers:

A. Average variable cost

B. Average fixed cost

C. Average variable cost + average fixed cost

D. Marginal costs