In which year did Amartya Sen receive the nobel prize for economics?
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Type(s) of income elasticity of demand is/are
A. negative income elasticity
B. zero income elasticity
C. unit income elasticity
D. All of the above
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The consumer is in equilibrium, maximizing his total utility, when
A. The marginal utility of the two goods consumed is equal
B. The proportion of the marginal utility and the respective price is equal
C. The consumer gets satisfaction from the consumption
D. The consumer is satisfied with his expenditure on various goods
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What is the nature of elasticity of demand for luxury item like high class furnitures?
A. Unit elastic
B. Highly elastic
C. Fairly elastic
D. Zero elastic
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Out of the following which is not a major component of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
A. Personal Consumption Expenditure
B. Gross Private Domestic Investment
C. Net Personal Income
D. Net Exports
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State the true statement?
A. Iso-product curve is a description of ridge curves
B. Iso-production curve is not a description of ridge curves
C. There is no relation between iso-production curve and ridge curves
D. All the above statements are false
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Which of the following pair(s) is/are not correct?
A. Under perfect competition, demand curve is perfectly elastic
B. Under monopoly, demand curve is relatively more elastic
C. Both A and B
D. All of the above
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MU curve will intersect x-axis when
A. MU is negative
B. TU is maximum
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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In a market economy, the price system provides all of the following except which one?
A. Signals to consumers
B. Incentives to producers
C. A means of allocating scarce resources
D. A store of value
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If the price of good changes, but everything else influencing the supplier-planned sales remains constant, there is
A. Rotation of the initial supply curve around the initial price
B. New supply curve to the right of the initial supply curve
C. New supply curve to the left of the initial supply curve
D. Movement along the supply curve
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Assertion (A): Business Economics is tool centrally facilitating decision making in business.
Reason (R): It provides an analytical understanding of economic activities.
A. Both (A) and (R) are not correct
B. Both (A) and (R) are correct
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (R) is true, but (A) is false
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To produce a given level of output, a firm maximizes profits when the marginal rate of technical substitution is equal to the ratio of factor prices. This principle is known as
A. Diminishing marginal productivity
B. Increasing marginal productivity
C. Equi-marginal productivity
D. Law of diminishing returns
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Individual demand schedule shows
A. tabular presentation of law of demand
B. the prices of goods
C. the quantities of a commodity purchased
D. All of the above
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A queue of a large number of farmers before a single cold storage in the area is a case of
A. monopoly
B. oligopoly
C. monopsony
D. monopolistic competition
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In which one of the following market situations, the pricing above the prevailing market price is used as a more common practice?
A. Markets where the selling firms face perfect competitive situations
B. Markets where the selling firms want to gain popularity of the products having high cross elasticity of their demand
C. Markets where sellers rely on their customer's high propensity to consume a prestigious commodity
D. Markets where the selling firms have entered into the stages of maturity and saturation
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Shopping goods have which of the following features?
I. These products are generally durable in nature
II. Consumers generally compare the goods of various sellers and the buy such goods
III. Per unit price of these goods is generally high
IV. These goods are regularly and continuously in demand
V. These goods are sold as a result of aggressive promotional efforts
Choose the right answer from the options given below:
A. III, IV and V
B. I, II and III
C. II, III and IV
D. I, III and V
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Assertion (A) Total utility will be maximum, when marginal utility to price of respective products are equal.
Reason (R) Deviation from this situation leads to reduction in maximum utility.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true
B. Both (A) and (R) are false
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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Law of increasing and constant returns are temporary phases of
A. law of variable proportion
B. law of diminishing return
C. law of diminishing utility
D. law of proportionality
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Graphical presentation of demand for a consumer
1. Individual demand
b. Horizontal summation of quantity
2. Market demand
A. a-1, b-2
B. a-2, b-1
C. Both are incorrect
D. Both are correct
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Identify the years in which different phases of Bank Nationalisation took place in India:
(i) 1950
(ii) 1955
(iii) 1969
(iv) 1949
(v) 1980
A. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
B. (ii), (iii), (v)
C. (ii), (iv), (v)
D. (iii), (iv), (v)
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