Which of the following should be balanced the foreign trade of a country?
A. Balance of trade
B. Balance of payment
C. Balance of current account
D. None of these
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Which one is not the characteristics of oligopoly firm?
A. Conflicting attitude of firms
B. Advertising and sales promotion
C. One firm
D. Few sellers
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A market
A. necessarily refers to a meeting place between buyers and sellers where goods are bought and sold
B. does not necessarily refer to a meeting place between buyers and sellers
C. extends over the entire nation
D. extends over a city
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Bilateral monopoly refers to the market situation of
A. two sellers
B. two buyers
C. one seller and two buyers
D. None of the above
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The extent of the change of demand for a commodity to a given change in . . . . . . . ., other demand determinants remaining constant, is termed as the . . . . . . . . of demand.
A. price, price elasticity
B. price, cross elasticity
C. income, price
D. None of these
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The difference in return between a chosen investment and a necessary one passed up in the law of variable proportion indicates:
A. Increasing returns
B. Constant returns
C. Diminishing returns
D. Negative returns
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For a commodity giving large consumer's surplus, the demand will be
A. Less elastic
B. Unit elastic
C. More elastic
D. Perfectly elastic
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Put these concepts in chronological order of their development.
1. Law of demand
2. Law of indifference
3. Law of DMU
4. Revealed preference theory
5. Indifference curve
A. 1, 3, 2, 4, 5
B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
C. 1, 3, 2, 5, 4
D. 1, 5, 2, 4, 3
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In a market economy, the allocation of resources between different productive activities is determined mainly by:
A. The decision of the government
B. The wealth of entrepreneurs
C. The pattern of consumer expenditure
D. The supply of factors of production
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The central statistical organization was
A. On 15th March, 1949
B. On 12th March, 1950
C. On 2nd March, 1948
D. On 2nd May, 1951
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Normal demand curve
1. Vertical straight line
b. Income consumption curve
2. Downwards to right
c. Inelastic demand curve
3. Infinity
d. Cross elasticity of demand between two perfect substitute will be
4. Upwards to the right
A. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
B. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C. a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
D. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
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Indifference curve is the combination of two goods that are
A. Complementary goods
B. Substitute goods
C. Not related with each other
D. Related to two different people
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Match the following.
List-I (Forms of Market)
List-II (Features)
a. Perfect competition
1. High degree of interdependence
b. Monopolistic competition
2. Homogeneous product
c. Monopoly
3. Product differentiation
d. Oligopoly
4. One seller and large number of buyers
A. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
B. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
C. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
D. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
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In the case of a short-run production function, the factor ratio remains
A. Constant
B. Variable
C. Either constant or variable
D. None of the above
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The cross-price elasticity between two products is found to be half. From this, we know that the two product are
A. Normal
B. Inferior
C. Necessities
D. Complements
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A natural monopoly is a market situation, in which
A. all firms sell natural resources
B. a single firm supplies natural resources to an entire industry
C. a single firm can supply the market output more efficiently than many firms
D. None of the above
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The G. E. Business Model is explained on which one of the following parameters?
A. Market Attractiveness and Business Position
B. Business Attractiveness and Market Position
C. Industry Growth rate and Company's Market share
D. Company's Growth rate and Industry's Position
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Using TR and TC a profit maximising firm will be in equilibrium at a point where the
A. gap between the two is small
B. gap between the two is greatest
C. gap does not exist
D. None of the above
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The nature of cross price elasticity of demand in case of complementary products will be
A. positive
B. negative
C. both A and B
D. zero
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Assertion (A) Marginal cost and differential cost do not convey the same meaning in all the circumstances.
Reason (R) Differential cost increases or decreases due to change in fixed cost.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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