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The slutsky demand curve includes:

A. Income effect

B. Price effect

C. Substitution effect

D. None of the above

Correct Answer :

B. Price effect


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The difference between the average total cost and average variable cost as output increases will:

A. Increases

B. Remains the same

C. Diminishes

D. Zero

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When elasticity of demand is greater than one (e >1), then following the formula MR=P[1-1/e], the MR will:

A. Positive

B. Negative

C. Zero

D. None of the above

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An indifferent curve shows:

A. That how many utils are obtained from consuming different bundles of commodities

B. Different collections of two commodities the consumer considers to be of equal value

C. That if price increases there will be an increases in demand

D. None of the above

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The good will highest income elasticity is:

A. Beef

B. Mutton

C. Bread

D. Motion-picture tickets

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The effect of consumer boycotts usually is:

A. A rise in the price of the product

B. A decrease in the demand for the product

C. A decrease in the supply of the product

D. An increase in the quantity supplied of the product

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A monopolist is:

A. Price winner

B. Price searcher

C. Price taker

D. Price leaver

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The budget-line is also known as the:

A. Iso-utility curve

B. Production possibility line

C. Isoquant

D. Consumption possibility line

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The modern cost curves are based upon the idea of:

A. Fixed capacity

B. Specific capacity

C. Excess capacity

D. Reserve capacity

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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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Under competitive conditions, the industry will be in equilibrium:

A. When each firm is in equilibrium equating MC with MR

B. When all the firms are earning only normal profits

C. When firms outside have no tendency to enter the industry and those within, have no tendency to leave the industry

D. All of the above

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Along an isoquant, output remains same, and capital labor ratio:

A. Is also same

B. Is different

C. Is constant

D. Is zero

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A maximin strategy:

A. Maximizes the minimum gain that can be earned

B. Maximizes the gain of one player, but minimizes the gain of the opponent

C. Minimizes the maximum gain that can be earned

D. None of the above

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Efficient allocation of resources is achieved to a greater extent under:

A. Monopoly

B. Perfect competition

C. Monopolistic competition

D. Oligopoly

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Utility means:

A. The want- satisfying power of a commodity

B. Usefulness of commodity

C. Eating of commodity

D. None of these

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Rotten eggs are:

A. Free goods

B. Economic goods

C. Luxury goods

D. None of the above

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If at the unchanged price, the demand for a commodity goes up, or the quantity demanded remains the same when its price goes up, it is called:

A. Contraction of demand

B. Decrease in demand

C. Increase in demand

D. Extension of demand

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According to Chamberlin, the activity of a monopolistic competitive firm:

A. Get noticed by the rival firms

B. Get unnoticed by the rival firms

C. Get noticed by the employees of the rival firms

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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If X and Y are close substitutes, a fall in price of X will lead to:

A. Increase in demand for Y

B. Decrease in demand for Y

C. Increase in demand for both X and Y

D. Increase in demand for Y

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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 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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The cost curves of the firm shift due to changes in:

A. Input prices

B. Technological innovations

C. Both of them

D. None of them

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Excess capacity is not found under:

A. Monopoly

B. Monopolistic competition

C. Perfect competition

D. Oligopoly

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Which is not a central problem of an economy?

A. What to produce

B. How to produce

C. How to maximize private profit

D. For whom to produce

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If the demand curve is inelastic then:

A. It may be nearly vertical

B. Quantity demanded is very sensitive to income

C. Demand is hardly affected by income

D. Close substitutes for the good are abundant

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A producer attains the least cost combination when the relation between Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution (MRTS) and price (P) of the factors x and y is:

A.

B.

C.

D.

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The products, under monopolistic competition are differentiated, yet they are:

A. Complements

B. Close substitutes

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above

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The demand curve of giffen goods will be:

A. Negatively sloped

B. Positively sloped

C. Parallel to X-axis

D. None of the above

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In real life, brand loyalty is a barrier to:

A. Enter the new firms

B. Exit the new firms

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above

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Labor theory was firstly rejected by:

A. Adam Smith

B. Karl Marx

C. Ricardo

D. Pigou