One of the problems of India's Foreign Trade is
A. Payment of imports in rupees
B. Increasing quantity of exports
C. Unfavorable terms of trade
D. None of the above
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Average variable cost curve under the modern theory of costs
A. U-shaped
B. Plate like shape
C. L-shape
D. Inverted J-shaped
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The tangible goods for which a consumer wants to compare quality, price and perhaps style in several stores before making a purchase are called:
A. Convenience Goods
B. Shopping Goods
C. Speciality Goods
D. Unsought Goods
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When an individual's income falls (while everything else remains the same), his demand for an inferior goods
A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains unchanged
D. we cannot say without additional information
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One of the essential conditions of perfect competition is:
A. only on price for identical goods at any time
B. product differentiation
C. multiplicity of prices for identical product at any time
D. many sellers and few buyers
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When the cross-elasticity of demand between two goods is zero, the goods are-
A. complementary
B. independent
C. substitutes
D. luxuries
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Statement I Point price elasticity of demand in terms of marginal and average revenues can be measured with the following formula A R − M R A R .
Statement II The point price elasticity of demand is the product of the slope of the demand function and the ratio between corresponding price and quantity.
A. Both the statements are correct
B. Both the statements are incorrect
C. Statement I is correct, while Statement II is incorrect
D. Statement I is incorrect, while Statement II is correct
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Optimal input combination to minimise the cost for a given output will be at the point where
A. Isocost is tangent to isoquant
B. MRTS between inputs is equal
C. Any movement from optimum point will lead to low level of output
D. All of the above conditions are fulfilled
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Economics may be divided into macro-economics and micro-economics. Among the subject matter of micro-economics may be found
A. the nature of value in exchange
B. the size of a country's national income
C. the allocation of resources among competing uses
D. the relative prices of specific services
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Elasticity of demand for money:
A. Can be unit
B. May exceed the unit
C. Can be less than the unit
D. All of these
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If the MRSxy (Marginal Substitution Rate) for consumer A is greater than that of MRSxy (Marginal Substitution Rate) of B, then profit for consumer A will be assuming that
A. More quantity of commodity Y than exchange X with consumer B
B. Consumer B to exchange XY for X for more than X
C. Exchanging X or Y
D. Nothing can be said without additional information
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Purchasing Power Parity theory was propounded by Gustav Cassele in year . . . . . . . .
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When both the demand and the supply curves slope downwards and the demand curve is steeper than the supply curve, the equilibrium is
A. stable in both Marshallian and Walrasian sense
B. unstable in both Marshallian and Walrasian sense
C. stable in the Marshallian sense but unstable in the Walrasian sense
D. unstable in the Marshallian sense but stable in the Walrasian sense
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In the long-run, the market price of a commodity is equal to its minimum average cost of production, if there is
A. perfect competition
B. monopoly
C. oliogopoly
D. monopolistic competition
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Economics is derived from the Greek word 'oikonomikus' which means
A. Business Management
B. Economics
C. House Management
D. Wealth Management
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A production function expressed as
Q = A [αK-β + (1 - α)L-β ]-1/β
Or
Q = A [αL-β + (1 - α)K-β ]-1/β
When A > 0, 0 < α < 1 and β > -1
Where L = labour, K = Capital and A, α and β are three parameters is called
A. Constant elasticity substitution function
B. Variable elasticity substitution function
C. Leontief-type function
D. Cobb - Douglas function
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According to the modern ideology, the law of diminishing return applies to
A. Agricultural sector
B. Industrial sector
C. In service
D. In all areas of production
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Which one of the following is not the basic property of indifference curves?
A. Negative slope
B. Indifference curves of two imperfect substitutes are concave to the point of origin
C. The indifference curves do not intersect nor are they tangent to one another
D. Upper indifference curves indicate a higher level of satisfaction
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A monopoly is a market structure, in which
A. a single firm exercises its power over smaller firms
B. a single firm produces a product with a wide variety of very close substitutes
C. each firm is run by a small proprietor
D. there is only one firm producing a product, which has no close substitutes
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The area which lies under the demand curve for a given good measures
A. marginal utility
B. marginal cost
C. marginal profit
D. total utility
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