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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
If injections are greater than withdrawals.
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National income will increase
National income will decrease
National income will stay in equilibrium
Price will fall
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Question # 2
Equilibrium in the market for good A obtains.
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When there is no surplus or shortage prevailing in the market
Where the demand and supply curves for A intersect
When all of what is produced of A is consumed
All of the above
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Question # 3
If the marginal revenue is less than the marginal cost then to profit maximize a firm should.
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Reduce output
Increase output
Leave output where it is.
Increase costs
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Question # 4
If injection are less than with drawls at the full employment level of national income there is.
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an inflationary gap
Equilibrium
A deflationary gap
Hyperinflation
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Question # 5
Which of the following is not a way of helping developing economics.
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Aid
Loans
Protectionism of developed markets
Training and education programmes
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Question # 6
If there is a price celling which of the following is NOT likely to occur.
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Rationing by first come first served
Black markets
Gray markets
Sellers providing goods for free that were formerly not free
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Question # 7
The Philips curve shows the relationship between inflation and what?
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The balance of trade
The rate of growth in an economy
The rate of price increases
Un employment
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Question # 8
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 # 9
The natural rate of unemployment is likely to tall if
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Unemployment benefits increase
Income tax increases
More training is available for the unemployed
Geographical immobility increases
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Question # 10
Which of the following is the government most likely to subsidies.
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Negative externalities
Positive externalities
Monopolies
O ligopojies
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Question # 11
The economists who emphasized wage flexibility as a solution for unemployment were.
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Monetarists
New keynesians
Classical economists
Keynesians
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Question # 12
Any combination of products inside the production possibility frontier is
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Allocatively inefficient
X inefficient
Consumer inefficient
Productively inefficient
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Question # 13
If the fprice in a market is fixed by the government below equilibrium.
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There is excess equilibrium
There is excess supply
There is excess demand
There is equilibrium
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Question # 14
The marginal rate of tax paid is.
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The total tax paid /total income
Total income/total tax paid
Change in the tax paid/change in income
Change in income/change in tax paid
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Question # 15
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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Question # 16
A government might use tax to.
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Discourage consumption of positive externalities
Discourage consumption of public goods
Discourage consumption of merit goods
Discourage consumption of negative externalities
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Question # 17
Menu costs in relation to inflation refer to
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Costs of finding better rates of return
Costs of altering price lists
Costs of money increasing its value
Costs of revaluing the currency
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Question # 18
Horizontal integration may lead to internal economics of scale. Which of the following is not a type of internal economy of scale.
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Purchasing
Technical
Financial
Safety
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Question # 19
In monopolistic competition if firms are making abnormal profit other firms will enter and
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The marginal cost will shift outwards
the demand curve will shift inwards
The average cost will shift downwards
The average variable cost will increase
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Question # 20
A reduction in the costs of production will
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Lead to a movement along the supply curve
Shift the demand curve
Shift the supply curve
Lead to an extension of supply
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Question # 21
The marginal revenue curve in monopoly
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Equals the demand curve
Is a parallel with the demand curve
Lies below and converges with the demand curve
Lies below and diverges from the demeaned curve
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