Home
Current Affairs January 2024

What is the correct answer?

4

Increase in demand occurs when:

A. The price falls and the demand also falls down

B. The price increases but demand falls down

C. The price increases the demand remains constant and when the price remains constant the demand goes up

D. The price remains constant but demand falls

Correct Answer :

C. The price increases the demand remains constant and when the price remains constant the demand goes up


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

The long run average cost curve is the envelope of:

A. SACs

B. LACs

C. SMCs

D. LMCs

What is the correct answer?

4

The firm is at equilibrium where:

A. Output is maximum

B. Profit is maximum

C. Revenues are maximum

D. Profit is minimum

What is the correct answer?

4

Who developed the concept of Representative Firm?

A. A.C.Pigou

B. Alfred Marshal

C. J.M.Keynes

D. D.H.Robertson

What is the correct answer?

4

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

What is the correct answer?

4

The Modern and Neo-Keynsian Theory of Interestwas presented by:

A. Gunner Myrdal

B. A.C.Pigou

C. J.M.Keynes

D. J.R.Hicks

What is the correct answer?

4

Used cars are sold in:

A. Perfectly competitive international market

B. Perfectly competitive national market

C. Imperfect international market

D. Imperfect local market

What is the correct answer?

4

The alternative of profit maximization theory is:

A. Cost maximization

B. Product maximization

C. Revenue maximization

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

Engel curves shows that:

A. How commoditys consumption rate differs at various levels of price

B. How commoditys consumption rate differs at various levels of satisfaction

C. How commoditys consumption rate differs at various levels of income

D. How commoditys consumption rate differs at various levels of taxes

What is the correct answer?

4

Who wrote Mathematical Analysis for Economists?

A. J.P.Lewis

B. R.G.D.Allen

C. Paul A.Samuelson

D. E.D.Domar

What is the correct answer?

4

The behavior of MC curve is determined by the behavior of the:

A. AC curve

B. SC curve

C. TC curve

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

We can find total utility by:

A. Multiplying the number of unit by its marginal utility

B. Adding up the marginal utility of all units

C. Multiplying price by number of units

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

The difference between average cost and average revenue is:

A. Total profit

B. Average profit

C. Net profit

D. Marginal profit

What is the correct answer?

4

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

What is the correct answer?

4

Economics is a:

A. Exact science

B. Inexact science

C. Pure science

D. All of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

The substitution effect works to encourage a consumer to purchase more of a product when the price of that good is falling because:

A. The consumers real income has increased

B. The consumers real income has decreased

C. The product is now relatively less expensive than before

D. Other products are now less expensive than before

What is the correct answer?

4

The situation in between the extremes of the govt. controlled, planned economy and the perfectly free, unplanned economy is known as:

A. Developed economy

B. Laissez-fair economy

C. Mixed economy

D. Capitalistic economy

What is the correct answer?

4

At final equilibrium in cournot model, each firm sells:

A. 1/2 of the total market demand

B. 1/4 of the total market demand

C. 1/3 of the total market demand

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

Moving along the indifference curve leaves the consumer:

A. Better off

B. Worse off

C. In equilibrium

D. Neither better off nor Worse off

What is the correct answer?

4

Capital and Development Planning is the work of:

A. S.Chakravarty

B. J.S.Mill

C. A.C.Pigou

D. F.W.Taussig

What is the correct answer?

4

In monopolistic competition, the individual demand curve is also known as:

A. Planned products curve

B. Planned material curve

C. Planned costs curve

D. Planned sales curve

What is the correct answer?

4

A demand curve which is horizontal and parallel to x-axis represents:

A. Infinitely elastic demand

B. Infinitely inelastic demand

C. Relatively elastic demand

D. Relatively inelastic demand

What is the correct answer?

4

According to Chamberline, in monopolistic competition, differentiation is determined by:

A. Choices

B. Preferences

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

Who is the author of Trade Cycle ?

A. R.Nurkse

B. R.C.Mathews

C. W.A.Lewis

D. K.N.Raj

What is the correct answer?

4

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

What is the correct answer?

4

In a socialist (communist) economy the invisible hand:

A. Guides most resource allocation decisions

B. Operates effectively only in the labor market

C. Operates effectively only in the market for capital

D. Is prevented from operating effectively

What is the correct answer?

4

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

A. Giffen goods

B. Necessities

C. Luxuries

D. Prestige goods

What is the correct answer?

4

Cardinal approach includes arranging:

A. The different combinations of X and Y higher and lower without actually measuring the difference of utility between them

B. The different combinations of X and Y higher and lower and measuring the difference of utility between them

C. Different combination of X, Y and Z

D. None of above

What is the correct answer?

4

If a firm produces zero output in the short period then which statement is true?

A. Its total cost will be zero

B. Its variable cost will be positive

C. Its fixed cost will be positive

D. Its average cost will be zero

What is the correct answer?

4

In the long-run competitive equilibrium, the theory predicts that:

A. TC = TR and MC = MR

B. Firms operate at a minimum average total cost

C. There is no incentive for entry or exit of firms

D. All these conditions exist

What is the correct answer?

4

The cost of firms in cournot model are:

A. identical

B. differential

C. very high

D. very low