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Income distribution effects:

A. The price of complements

B. The price of substitutes

C. The market demand for commodities

D. The individuals scale of performances

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C. The market demand for commodities


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Who is the author of Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries?

A. R.Nurkse

B. N.Kaldor

C. S.kuznets

D. Alfred Marshal

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A budget line shows:

A. Price of commodity X in terms of Y

B. Price of commodity Y in term of X

C. Income of the consumer

D. All of the above

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The cost of firms in cournot model are:

A. identical

B. differential

C. very high

D. very low

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In substitution effect and income effect:

A. The substitution effect is more certain

B. The income effect is more certain

C. The substitution effect is uncertain

D. The income effect is always positive

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The monopolist often lead to exploitation of:

A. Producers

B. Workers

C. Managers

D. Consumers

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The demand of the luxuries is:

A. More elastic

B. Less elastic

C. Unit elastic

D. Zero elastic

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Identify the work of Irving Fisher:

A. Policy on trade

B. Policy against inflation

C. The making of index numbers

D. Labor theory

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The number of sellers in oligopoly are:

A. Two

B. Many

C. Four

D. Very few

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Total Utility (TU) curve:

A. Always rises

B. Always falls

C. First falls and then rises

D. First rises and then falls

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Indifference curve approach (ordinal approach) is superior to utility approach (cardinal approach) because:

A. In ordinal approach we can separate the income effect from the substitution effect of a price change

B. In ordinal approach we can study the consumer behavior more closely

C. In ordinal approach the consumer is assumed more rational

D. In ordinal approach the consumer has more income

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The long-run average cost is based on the fact that:

A. None of the factors are variable in the long-run

B. All factors are perfectly divisible in the long-run

C. None of the factors is divisible

D. Management factor is indivisible while all other factors are divisible and can be varied in long-run

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If a commodity sold under monopoly is got free of cost, then MC will be:

A. Zero

B. Identical with the MR

C. A horizontal straight line

D. Infinite

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In modern theory, LAC = LMC after the attainment of:

A. Maximum optimal scale

B. Average optimal scale

C. Minimum optimal scale

D. None of the above

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Which one of the following is also known as Plant Curves:

A. Long-run average cost (LAC) curves

B. Short-run average cost (SAC) curves

C. Average variable cost (AVC) curves

D. Average total cost (ATC) curves

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The cournot model is a model of:

A. Instable equilibrium

B. Stable equilibrium

C. Constant equilibrium

D. Fluctuating equilibrium

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After reaching the saturation point consumption of additional units of the commodity cause:

A. Total utility to fall and marginal utility to increase

B. Total utility and marginal utility both to increase

C. Total utility to fall and marginal utility to become negative

D. Total utility to become negative and marginal utility to fall

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Diseconomies of management lead to:

A. Decreasing returns to scale

B. Constant returns to scale

C. Increasing returns to scale

D. maximum returns to scale

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A monopolist is:

A. Price winner

B. Price searcher

C. Price taker

D. Price leaver

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Neutral 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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Demand for a commodity is elastic when it has

A. Only one use

B. Many uses

C. Uses which cannot be postponed

D. Uses very essential for the consumer

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Production function shows:

A. Technical relationship between inputs and output

B. Profitability production

C. Relation between MR and MC

D. Relation between AR and AC

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In monopoly:

A. The producer will often produce a volume that is less than the amount which would maximize the social welfare.

B. The producer will often produce a volume that is more than the amount which would maximize the social welfare.

C. The consumers will often consume a volume that is more than the amount which would maximize the social welfare.

D. None of the above

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An iso-product (an isoquant) curve slopes:

A. Downward to the left

B. Downward to the right

C. Upward to the right

D. Upward to the left

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In real life firms:

A. Loss because of past

B. Learn from past

C. Destroy because of past

D. None of the above

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If the increase in demand is more than the increase in supply, the price will:

A. Rise

B. Fall

C. Remain the same

D. None of the above

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The demand curve slopes downwards due to:

A. Income effect(I.E)

B. Substitution effect(S.E)

C. Taste effect

D. Both a and b

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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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If the marginal utility is divided by the price of the commodity then it is called:

A. Real Marginal Utility

B. Gross Marginal Utility

C. Weighted Marginal Utility

D. Money Marginal Utility

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Selling costs are incurred under monopolistic competition to:

A. Attract more customers

B. Prevent its customers from going to others

C. Establish superiority of its product on the others

D. All of the above

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J.R.Hicks was:

A. Neo-classical economist

B. Classical economist

C. Keynesian economist

D. Post-Keynesian economist