Economic theory and application
1. Discuss the nature and scope of Business Economics
2 .How does the study of Business Economics help a business manager indecision-making? Illustrate your answer with the real world examples.
3. What is the Opportunity Cost? How can it be calculated? What are the precautions to be kept in view while using the Opportunity Cost?
4. Draw individual and market demand schedules. Discuss the difficulties in preparing a market demand schedule.
5. Write short notes on:
a) Demand forecasting
b) Consumer Surplus
c) Marginal Utility
d) Gross price elasticity of demand
e) Complementary goods
6. Explain the law of Variable proportions. Which is the bet stage of production?
7. Explain Least Cost Combination of the factors.
8. Distinguish between Average and Marginal Cost and show by examples and diagrams that marginal cost is less than average cost if average cost is falling and marginal cost is more than average cost is rising.
Q 1. Make a comprehensive analysis on two-wheeler demand in India.
1. Average product is defined as--
a. Total cost divided by the total units of input
b. Total output divided by the total units of input
c. Total cost divided by total output
d. Total output divided by total cost of input
2. To manufacture a PC, you require a keyboard and a monitor. If you measure keyboard on the X-axis and monitor on the Y-axis, the shape of the Isoquant will be--
a. Convex to the origin
b. Concave to the origin
c. Downward sloping straight line
d. Upward sloping straight line
3. When average product is highest?
a. Total product is maximum
b. Marginal product is maximum
c. Marginal product is zero
d. Marginal product is negative
4. The intersection of marginal product curve and average product curve characterizes the point of--
a. Maximum profit
b. Maximum total product
c. Maximum average product
d. Maximum marginal product
5. The average total cost will be minimum at a point where--
a. Marginal cost and average fixed cost curves intersect
b. Marginal cost and average variable cost curves intersect
c. Marginal cost and average cost curves intersect
d. Marginal cost is minimum
6. Which of the following curves is called envelope curve?
a. Long run total cost curve
b. Long run average total cost curve
c. Long run marginal cost curve
d. Long run average variable cost curve
7. Average fixed cost--
a. Always declines as the output increases
b. Is U-shaped, if there are increasing returns to scale
c. Is U-shaped, if there are decreasing returns to scale
d. Is intersected by marginal cost at its minimum point
8. Which of the following cost curves is also called planning curve?
a. Long run total cost curve
b. Long run average cost curve
c. Long run marginal cost curve
d. Total fixed cost curve
9. Economic profit is--
a. Accounting profit + Implicit cost
b. Accounting profit + Implicit cost+ Explicit cost
c. Accounting profit - Implicit cost
d. Accounting profit –Indirect costs
10. The intersection of the marginal cost curve and the average cost curve characterizes the point of--
a. Maximum profit
b. Minimum average cost
c. Minimum marginal cost
d. Minimum opportunity cost
11. Which of the following costs remain constant as the output increases?
a. Marginal cost and average fixed cost curves intersect
b. Marginal cost and average variable cost curves intersect
c. Average fixed cost
d. Total variable cost
12. Increasing marginal costs with increase of output implies--
a. Decreasing average returns
b. Decreasing average fixed costs
c. Decreasing average variable costs
d. Decreasing total costs
13.Which of the following cost curves is not ‘U’ shaped?
a. Long run average cost curve
b. Long run marginal cost curve
c. Short run average cost curve
d. Long run average variable cost curve
14.What would be the shape of the total cost curve when a manufacturing unit is experiencing economies of scale?
a. Upward sloping
b. Rectangular hyperbola
c. Is U-shaped
d. Inverted U-shaped
15.In perfect competition, a firm maximizing its profit will set its output at that level where--
a. Average variable cost = price
b. Marginal cost= price
c. Fixed cost= price
d. Average fixed cost= price
16.It is advisable for a firm operating under perfect competition to shut down in the short run when the price of the product falls below the--
a. Total cost
b. Fixed cost
c. Average variable cost
d. Semi-fixed cost
17.Which of the following is not a feature of perfect competition?
a. Large number of sellers and buyers
b. No one is large enough to influence the market price
c. Homogenous product
d. A horizontal demand curve
18.In the long run, a perfectly competitive firm earns only normal profits because of --
a. Product homogeneity in the industry
b. Larger number of sellers and buyers in the industry
c. Free entry and exit of firms in the industry
d. Both (a) and (b) above
19.The doctrine of invisible-hand applies to economies in which all the markets are--
a. Demand specific
b. Supply specific
c. Imperfectly competitive
d. Perfectly competitive
20.The horizontal demand curve for a firm is one of the characteristic features of-
a. Oligopoly
b. Monopoly
c. Monopolistic competition
d. Perfect competition
21.A perfectly competitive firm can increase its sales revenue by--
a. Reducing the price
b. Increasing the price
c. Increasing the production
d. Increasing the expenditure on advertising
22.
If a perfectly competitive industry is an increasing cost industry, the demand curve faced by a firm will be--
a. Upward sloping
b. Downward sloping
c. A horizontal straight line
d. A vertical straight line
23.A perfectly competitive firm earns abnormal profits when its--
a. Average cost curve lies above its demand curve
b. Average revenue curve is tangent to average cost curve
c. Demand curve lies above the average cost curve
d. Marginal revenue curve lies above the average cost curve
24.Which of the following is not a source of market imperfection?
a. Technology
b. Size of the firm
c. Product of the differentiation
d. Availability of resources
25.Which of the following is not a barrier to entry?
a. High costs of production
b. Government regulations
c. Production differentiation
d. Tax sops to new firms
26.The maximum profit condition for a monopoly firm is--
a. Total cost should be minimum
b. Total revenue should be maximum
c. Marginal revenue = Marginal cost
d. Quantity should be maximum
27.Market inefficiencies can come from--
a. Externalities
b. Monopolies
c. Imperfect information
d. All of the above
28.A monopolist who faces a negatively sloped demand curve operates in the region where the elasticity of demand is--
a. Less than one
b. Equal to one
c. Greater than one
d. Zero
29.An entrepreneur in order to maximize the profits, without affecting the price, should produce an output where--
a. Average cost is minimum
b. Average variable cost is minimum
c. Average fixed cost is minimum
d. Marginal cost is equal to the average variable cost
30.Macroeconomics is concerned with--
a. The level of output of goods and services
b. The general level of prices
c. The growth of real output
d. None of the above.
31.Real GNP increases--
a. When there is an increase in the price level
b. When there is an increase in the output of goods and services
c. When there is an increase in the price level and/or the output of goods and services
d. None of the above
32.Personal income includes all of the following except--
a. Transfer payments
b. Undistributed corporate profits
c. Personal income taxes
d. Personal savings
33.NDP does not include--
a. Payments made for income taxes
b. Depreciation allowances
c. Undistributed profits
d. The value added from intermediate goods
34.National income is--
a. NDP at market prices
b. NNP at market prices
c. NDP at factor cost
d. GNP at market prices
35.The difference between personal disposable income and personal income is--
a. Residential investment
b. Indirect taxes
c. Subsidies
d. Personal taxes
36.The net factor income earned within the domestic territory of a country must be equal to --
a. Net Domestic Product at factor cost
b. Net Domestic Product at market price
c. Net National product at factor cost
d. Personal income
37.The ratio of the change in equilibrium output to the change in autonomous spending that causes change in output is called--
a. Marginal propensity to consume
b. Marginal propensity to save
c. Average propensity to save
d. Average propensity to consume
38.When planned saving is greater than planned investment--
a. Output should increase
b. Output should decrease
c. Output should not change
d. Average propensity to consume
39.An autonomous increase in investment--
a. Does not affect the IS curve
b. Shifts the LM curve to the left
c. Output should not change
d. None of the above
40.What happens to the demand for coffee, when the price of tea increases?
a. Increases
b. becomes zero
c. decreases
d. remains same
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