MCQ questions choose the correct answer 1. As inflation increases and becomes more volatile, resulting in greater
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MCQ questions choose the correct answer
1. As inflation increases and becomes more volatile, resulting in greater uncertainty, which of the following is most likely to occur?
- The price system becomes less efficient as a coordinating mechanism
- Investment by firms is likely to increase
- International competitiveness is likely to improve
- Consumption by households is likely to increase
2. The Phillips curve describes the relationship between:
- the federal budget deficit and the trade deficit
- savings and investment
- the unemployment rate and the inflation rate
- marginal tax rates and tax revenues
3. Which of the following is an example of fiscal policy
- Tax increase
- Controlling money supply
- Manipulating Interest rates
- Consumer Spending
4. What is unlikely to be a feature of a large firm in a monopoly position in a market?
- It charges high prices.
- It removes barriers to entry.
- It achieves economies of scale.
- It will attract government attention.
5. In monopolistic competition:
- All products are homogeneous
- Firms make normal profits in the long run
- There are barriers to entry to prevent entry
- Firms face a perfectly elastic demand curve
6. Compared to a single-price monopoly, a perfectly competitive industry produces
- more output and has a lower price.
- more output and has a higher price.
- less output and has a higher price.
- less output and has a lower price.
7. Which of the following assumptions are essential parts of the 'kinked demand' curve analysis of an oligopoly market?
- Rivals reduce prices in response to any price increase
- Rival firms will increase price in response to any price increase
- Rivals reduce prices in response to any price decrease and ignores any price increase
- Rival increase price in response to any price increase and ignores any price decrease
8. What might cause the balance on the current account of a country to improve?
- increased spending by tourists in local hotels
- increased purchases of good from a foreign country
- increased transport of countries goods in foreign ships
- increased spending by locals on holidays in a foreign country
9. A country's terms of trade is the ratio of
- the quantity of its exports to the quantity of its imports
- the value of its exports to the value of its imports
- the index of its export prices to the index of its import prices, multiplied by 100
- domestic prices to international prices, multiplied by 100
10. An increase in injections into the economy may lead to:
- An outward shift of aggregate demand and demand-pull inflation
- An outward shift of aggregate demand and cost-push inflation
- An outward shift of aggregate supply and demand-pull inflation
- An outward shift of aggregate supply and cost-push inflation
11. In the aggregate demand and aggregate supply model, the intersection of the AD and AS curves determines
- The equilibrium price and quantity combinatio
- The difference between real and nominal GDP
- The price level and the rate of inflatio
- The price level and real GDP
12. How does a firm in perfectly competitive market guarantee that it makes the maximum profit?
- by maximizing the amount of goods that it sells
- by minimising the amount of goods that it keeps in stock
- by maximising the difference between its total revenue and total cost
- by minimising the difference between average revenue and average cost
13. Prices tend to be lower in a competitive industry than in a monopoly. Why is this?
- Profits are lower in a monopoly.
- Monopoly has less influence on the market.
- Competitive industry has more economies of scale.
- New firms are free to enter the competitive industry.
14. A single price monopoly will
- flood the market with goods to deter entry.
- produce only where marginal revenue is zero.
- produce in the elastic range of its demand curve.
- produce in the inelastic range of its demand curve
15. A monopolistically competitive firm has excess capacity because in the
- short run the firm does not produce at the minimum marginal cost.
- long run the firm does not produce at the minimum average total cost.
- long run the firm earns an economic profit.
- short run MR = MC.
16. One key difference between an oligopoly market and a competitive market is that
- oligopolistic firms are independent from each other while competitive firms are interdependent.
- oligopolistic firms sell completely unrelated products while competitive firms sell identical products.
- oligopolistic firms are relatively small while firms in a competitive markets are relatively large.
- oligopolistic firms are price makers while competitive firms are price takers.
17. Comparative advantage occurs when:
- A country has a lower opportunity cost in the production of a good than other countries
- A country has more product lines than other countries
- A country can produce more goods than anyone else
- The exchange rate appreciates
18. An increase in aggregate demand is more likely to lead to demand-pull inflation if:
- Aggregate supply is perfectly elastic
- Aggregate supply is perfectly inelastic
- Aggregate supply is unit elastic
- Aggregate supply is relatively elastic
19. If aggregate supply is totally price inelastic, an increase in aggregate demand will:
- Increase price but not output
- Increase output but not price
- Increase output and price
- Decrease output and price
20. The theory of "absolute advantage"
- Best describes a situation where there are 2 countries, A and B, and potentially two goods which can be traded, which are X and Y. A is absolutely better at producing X and B is absolutely better at producing Y, and so if A specializes in producing X and B in Y, and they trade together then both countries will gain.
- Best describes the global strategy of business who always seek to gain an absolute advantage over their rivals.
- Explains why developed countries have a competitive advantage over poorer countries.
- Best describes a situation where there are 2 countries, A and B, and potentially two goods which can be traded, which are X and Y. If A was absolutely better at producing both X and Y compared to B then there would be no advantage in A trading with B.