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The nominal income of a consumer is income in terms of:

A. Goods

B. Goods and services

C. Goods and services it can purchased

D. Monetary units

Correct Answer :

D. Monetary units


The nominal income of consumer is the value of consumers income measured in terms of monetary units, i.e. in dollars, rupees etc.)

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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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Cross-elasticity of demand or cross-price elasticity between two complements will be:

A. Negative

B. Positive

C. Infinite

D. Zero

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In microeconomics, we study:

A. Aggregates of the economy

B. Few units of the economy

C. Large units of the economy

D. Individual units of the economy

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With an increase in income, consumer is expected to buy more of:

A. An inferior good

B. A giffen good

C. A normal(or superior) good

D. None of the above

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The monopolist firm is price setter. The price setter firm is one which:

A. Can influence the market price

B. Cannot influence the market price

C. Can sell at zero price

D. None of the above

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4.The Law of Diminishing Returns according to the modern view, applies to:

A. Agriculture

B. All fields of production

C. Industry

D. Services

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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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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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The law of variable proportions comes into being when:

A. All factors are variable

B. There is a fixed factor and variable factor

C. All factors are non-variable

D. None of the above

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When the income of consumer increases then budget line will:

A. Get steeper

B. Shift parallel to right

C. To get flatter

D. To shift upward

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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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In Revealed Preference Theory, Samuelson proves P.E = S.E + I.E :

A. With using indifference curves

B. With using MRS

C. Without using indifference curve

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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In Bertrand model, the entry of new firms is:

A. banned

B. allowed

C. partially allowed

D. none of the above

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An income demand curve of an inferior good is:

A. Upward sloping

B. Downward sloping

C. Constant in slope

D. None of the above

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When the slope of a demand curve is infinite (also known as horizontal demand curve) then elasticity will be:

A. Zero (perfectly inelastic)

B. Equal to one (unitary elastic)

C. Infinite (perfectly elastic)

D. None of the above

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In monopolistic competition, the firm take advantage due to customers:

A. Similar choices

B. Unlimited choices

C. Differential choices

D. Few choices

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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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Price discrimination is possible:

A. Only under monopoly situation

B. Under any market form

C. Only under monopolistic competition

D. Only under perfect competition

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According to Robbins, economics is a:

A. Science of wealth

B. Science of national welfare

C. Science of optimality

D. Science of scarcity

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If both demand and supply were to increase then:

A. Quantity exchanged would fall and price would rise

B. Quantity exchanged and price would both fall

C. Quantity exchanged would rise and price might rise or fall

D. Quantity exchanged and price would both rise

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The study of economics just in theoretical way is called:

A. Positive Economics

B. Normative Economics

C. Micro Economics

D. Development Economics

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Under Bandwagon effects, people use those goods which are used by their:

A. Friends

B. Relatives

C. Family

D. All of them

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While buying two goods X and Y with unequal prices, to maximize total utility from his income, a consumer should get:

A. Equal MU from both commodities X and Y

B. More MU from commodity X than from commodity Y

C. More MU from commodity Y than from commodity X

D. Equal marginal utility from the last rupee spent on commodity X and commodity Y

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In cournot model firms:

A. Cannot make price adjustments

B. Can make price adjustments

C. Can adjust number of customers

D. None of the above

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The giffen paradox is an exception to law of:

A. Supply

B. Demand

C. Production

D. Consumption

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Capital 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 general markets results from the imposition of price ceilings has been:

A. Higher prices

B. Increased prices

C. Increased consumption

D. Shortage of products

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For the given production function, technical inefficiency 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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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