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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
According to classical models the level of employment is determined primarily by
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Interest rates
The level of prices
The level of aggregate supply in the economy
The level of aggregate demand for goods and services
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Question # 2
Injection are
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Assumed to be exogenous
Assumed to be a function of national income
Decrease aggregate demand
Decrease the investment into an economy
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Question # 3
There are three fundamental questions every society must answer Which of the following is one of these questions.
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What goods and services are to be produced.
How are the good and services to be produced.
Who will get the goods and services what are produced.
All of the above
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Question # 4
Finding a partner to work with abroad is called a.
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Takeover
Merger
Acquisition
Joint venture
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Question # 5
If marginal cost is positive and falling.
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Total cost is falling
Total cost is increasing at a falling rate
Total cost is falling at a falling rate
Total cost is increasing at an increasing rate.
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Question # 6
Why is the law of diminishing marginal returns true.
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specialization and division of labor
Spreading the average fixed cost
Limited capital
All factors being variable in the long run
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Question # 7
If firms join together to set prices and quantities this is known as what.
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Interaction
Conglomerate
Collusion
Integration
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Question # 8
Barriers to entry do not include
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Patents
Internal economics of scale
Mobility of resources
High investment costs
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Question # 9
Which of the following is not an obvious or direct determinant of a country's imports.
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Real exchange rate
Income
Tariff rates
Interest rate
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Question # 10
Profit making is basic motive in.
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Socialism
Mixed economy
Communism
Capitalism
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Question # 11
Earning from primary products are often unstable because.
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Demand is price elastic
Supply is price elastic
Supply conditions are relatively stable
Supply conditions are unstable
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Question # 12
Demand for labour is more likely to be wage inelastic if.
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Wages are a small proportion of total costs
Demand for the final product is price elastic
It is easy to replace labour
Capital is a good substitute forlabour
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Question # 13
If input price adjusted very slowly to output prices, the Phillip's curve would be.
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Downward sloping
Vertical or nearly vertical
Upward sloping
Horizontal or nearly horizontal
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Question # 14
Capital, as economists use the term.
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Is the money the firm spends to hire resources
Is money the firm raises from selling stock
Refers to the process by which resources are transformed into useful forms
Refers to things that have already been produced that are in turn used to produce other goods and services.
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Question # 15
Open market operations occur when the government.
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Reduces the interest rate
Buys and sells bonds and securities
Increases taxation
Increases the exchange rate
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Question # 16
The concept of "Interdependence of markets" can refer to the interdependence between.
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Two or more factor markets
Goods and factor markets
Goods markets
All of the above
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Question # 17
Profit is measured by
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Revenue - Fixed costs
Fixed cost + revenue
Revenue - sales
Revenues - total costs
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Question # 18
Which of the following is not an argument for protectionism.
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To protect infant industries
To increase the level of imports
To protect strategic industries
To improve the balance of payments
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Question # 19
Investment is an out stable element of aggregate demand because is depends heavily on.
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Government policy
Expectations
National income
Historic trends
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Question # 20
Which of the following is a characteristic of pure monopoly.
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one seller of the product
Low barriers to entry
Close substitute products
Perfect information
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Question # 21
An increase in productivity should.
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Lead to a contraction of supply
Lead to an expansion of supply
Lead to a shift in supply outwards
Lead to higher equilibrium and lower equilibrium quantity.
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