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In case of budget line, we get pairs of two goods where consumers income is:

A. Fully spent

B. Half spent

C. Partially spent

D. Correctly spent

Correct Answer :

A. Fully spent


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If a consumer buys a product that costs Rs.3 and provides an additional 18 units of satisfaction, then for this purchase:

A. Total utility will increase by 6 units

B. The marginal utility per rupee is 6

C. The consumer will buy more because marginal utility is positive

D. The consumer obtained an extra54 units

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At the point where a straight line demand curve meets the quantity axis (x-axis), elasticity of demand is:

A. Equal to zero

B. Equal to one

C. Equal to infinite

D. More than one

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Average Revenue means:

A. Per unit revenue received from all the units sold by the producer

B. Revenue of the units having average size

C. Total number of units× Revenue per unit

D. Total revenue × Number of units sold

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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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When a competitive firm is in equilibrium in the long-run, its output is such that:

A. Costs per unit of output are lowest

B. Total profits are highest

C. Marginal cost is lowest

D. Profit per unit of output is zero

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In the immediate run:

A. Supply curves are inelastic

B. Supply curves are perfectly elastic

C. Demand curves are elastic

D. Supply curves are elastic

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When there is decrease in demand the demand curve:

A. Moves (shifts) towards the axis

B. Moves (shifts) away from the axis

C. Remains unchanged

D. All of the above

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In finding equilibrium position of a profitmaximizing firm, which technique is most convenient?

A. Total revenue and total cost technique

B. Marginal revenue and marginal cost technique

C. Demand and supply technique

D. None of the above

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Identify the author of The Affluent Society?

A. Gunnar Myrdal

B. N.Kaldor

C. A.C.Pigou

D. J.K.Galbraith

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On all points of budget (price) line:

A. Total expenditures increases

B. Total expenditures decreases

C. Total expenditures are zero

D. Total expenditures remain same

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A fall in demand for the product under monopolistic competition will likely result in:

A. A fall in price

B. A decrease in the number of firms in the long-run

C. A decrease in the output of each firm

D. All of the above

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The production techniques are technically efficient:

A. Bellow the lower ridge line

B. Above the upper ridge line

C. Between the two ridge lines

D. On the upper ridge line

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If regardless of changes in its price, the quantity demanded of a commodity remains unchanged, then the demand curve for the commodity will be:

A. Horizontal

B. Vertical

C. Positively sloped

D. Negatively sloped

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An indifference curve normally slopes downward from:

A. Left to right

B. Right to left

C. Both of them

D. None of them

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The CES production function shows:

A. Decreasing return to scale

B. Increasing return to scale

C. Constant return to scale

D. None of the above

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The MC curve cuts the AVC and ATC curves:

A. At different points

B. At the falling parts of each

C. At their respective minimums

D. At the rising parts of each

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If the price of coffee increases, you would predict that:

A. Demand curve for sugar will shift downward (leftward)

B. Supply curve for sugar will shift leftward (upward)

C. Demand curve for bread will shift downward (leftward)

D. None of the above

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If the commodity is normal then fall in price will result in:

A. Increase the quantity demanded

B. Fixed the quantity demanded

C. Decrease the quantity demanded

D. None of the above

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The slope of isocost line (budget line) shows:

A. Capital labor ratio

B. Labor wage ratio

C. Factor price ratio

D. Factor labor ratio

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When the law of demand operates the demand curve:

A. Slopes downward

B. Slopes upward

C. Becomes horizontal

D. Becomes vertical

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If two goods are complements then indifference curve (IC) will be:

A. Straight line

B. Convex to origin

C. Concave to origin

D. Lshaped

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In respect of which of the following category of goods is consumers surplus highest?

A. Giffen goods

B. Necessities

C. Luxuries

D. Prestige goods

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Who stated explicitly for the first time the Law of Camparative Costs?

A. David Ricardo

B. Adam Smith

C. James Mill

D. A.C.Pigou

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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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Market demand curve is:

A. Vertical summation of individual demand curves

B. Upward summation of individual demand curves

C. Downward summation of individual demand curves

D. Horizontal summation of individual demand curves

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When AC curve falls, MC curve falls:

A. More than AC curve

B. Less than AC curve

C. Equal to AC curve

D. None of the above

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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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If the production function is homogeneous, the expansion path will be a straight line through the origin whose slope determines the optimal:

A. L/K ratio

B. K/L ratio

C. P/L ratio

D. P/K ratio

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In monopolistic competition, the customers are attached with one product because of:

A. Product similarity

B. Product differentiations

C. Product inferiority

D. None of the above

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Technological Progress (Invention) can be defined as:

A. Technological progress shifts the production function by allowing the firm to achieve more output from a given combination of inputs (or the same output with fewer inputs)

B. Technological progress shifts the production function by allowing the firm to achieve less output from a given combination of inputs (or the same output with more inputs)

C. Technological progress shifts the import function to the right

D. None of the above