The demand has the elements of quantity, price and time.
A. The desire, ability, and willingness of an individual to purchase goods and services at any given price per unit
B. The desire and willingness of the individual for all the goods and service for his standard of living
C. The ability of society to purchase all that is on the market at a given period
D. None of the above
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When the price-elasticity of demand is unity, the marginal revenue would be
A. Less than zero
B. Equal to zero
C. Equal to one
D. Greater than one
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Cobb Douglas production function as X = b0 , Ib1 , Kb2 which of the following is correct?
A. The substituent elasticity is equal to the unit
B. The instrument measures the concentration by the ratio b1 /b2
C. Organization and entrepreneurship are measured by efficiency
D. All of these
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The relationship between rate of inputs of productive services and the rate of output is known as:
A. Production function
B. Utility function
C. Supply function
D. None of these
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Match
List-I with
List-II and select the correct answer.
List-I
List-II
a. Offer curve
1. Market segmentation
b. Laffer curve
2. Sticky price
c. Lorenz curve
3. Reciprocal demand
d. Kinked curve
4. Inequalities
5. Public revenue
A. a-1, b-4, c-5, d-3
B. a-3, b-5, c-4, d-2
C. a-1, b-5, c-3, d-2
D. a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1
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The total effect of a price change of a commodity is
A. Substitution effect + price effect
B. Substitution effect - income effect
C. Substitution effect + income effect
D. Substitution effect - price effect
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Malthusian theory of population is based on:
A. law of demand as applied to population
B. law of diminishing return as applied to agriculture
C. law of marginal utility as applied to agriculture
D. law of marginal return as applied to population
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Income elasticity of demand for good 'X' is greater than zero but less than 1, so commodity 'X' is
A. An essential good
B. A luxury good
C. Inferior good
D. A Giffen good
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Business Economics is a subject which
A. studies economic relationships
B. studies economic activities at the aggregate level
C. deals with the tools of economics used for decision making in business
D. studies optimum allocation of limited resources
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At a point of satiety for a commodity, the marginal utility is
A. Negative
B. Positive
C. Zero
D. Highly positive
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Operation generated forecasts often not to do with
A. Inventory requirements
B. Resources needs
C. Time requirements
D. Sale
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When total utility is maximum, then marginal utility is
A. Zero
B. Less than average utility
C. Equal to average utility
D. Above average utility
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A perfectly competitive firm maximizes its profit by producing output at which its marginal cost equals its
A. Marginal revenue
B. Average revenue
C. Average variable cost
D. Average fixed cost
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When labour is plotted on X-axis and capital is plotted on Y-axis and an isoquant is prepared, then which of the following statement(s) is/are
false?
1. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to the slope of the iso-quant.
2. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is equal to change in the units of capital divided by the change in the units of labour.
3. Marginal rate of technical substitution of labour for capital is the ratio of marginal productivity of capital to marginal productivity of labour.
A. Both 1 and 2
B. Only 3
C. Only 1
D. Only 2
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Match the items of
List-I with those of
List-II
List-I
List-II
a. Substitute goods
1. Negative cross elasticity
b. Complementary goods
2. Low price elasticity
c. Giffen goods
3. Positive cross elasticity
d. High-income group
4. Positive price elasticity
A. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
B. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
C. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
D. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
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Globalization is the term used to describe process of removal of restriction on which one of the following?
A. Foreign trade
B. Investment
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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In the long run, the cost and output relationship depends on:
A. Return to scale
B. Fixed proportion of the variables
C. Return to the variable factors
D. Return to the fixed factors
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The basic characteristic of a capitalistic economy is
A. full employment
B. the private ownership of the means of production
C. an absence of monopoly
D. large-scale production in primary industries
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The production function Y = LK is
A. homogeneous of degree 2
B. homogeneous of degree 1
C. homogeneous of degree zero
D. non-homogeneous
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Demand must have the elements
A. Desire
B. Want
C. Quantity, Price and Time
D. All of the above
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