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The opportunity cost of acquiring education is. |
Course fees
Course fees and living expenses
The earning foregone
Course fees, living expenses and textbooks
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2 |
Skilled labour is relatively scarce because. |
There are too few teachers
Too few student places in higher education
It is costly to acquire human capital
Teachers salaries are too low
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3 |
The most important source of wage differentiate are. |
Reginal variation
Unionization
Relative danger
Skills
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4 |
Human capital can be described as. |
The tools used by workers to entrances productivity
a persons inherited abilities.
The stock of expertise accumulated by a worker
Education
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5 |
Top footballers land to earn more than lecturers because. |
Footballers give more entertainment
Lecturers are lazy
The labour markets are imperfect
Top footballers are relatively scarce in relation to lecturers
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6 |
The participation rate in the labour force is affected by |
Higher real wages
Lower fixed costs of working
Lower non labor income
All of the above
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7 |
A profit maximizing firm will hire labor until _______ equal the |
Marginal revenue, marginal cost
Long run marginal revenue, long run marginal cost
Labour output ratio, capital output ratio
Marginal cost of labour, marginal revenue product
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8 |
A dominant strategy is. |
A winning strategy
A losing strategy
A players best strategy when moving fist
a player's best strategy whatever the strategies adopted by rivals
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9 |
In Nash equilibrium each player chooses the best strategy. |
Assuming other players move first.
Dominated by the other players
Given the strategies of other players
That is a credible threat
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10 |
The prisoners Dilemma Game demonstrates that. |
Players are better off to act independently
Monopoly is better than competition
People will always cheat
Players are better off if they con operate
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When a market is contestable , incumbent firms must.________ to avoid the entry of new competitors. |
Behave like competitive firms
Agree to act together
Differentiate their products
Practice price discrimination
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A natural monopoly has a declining ________ over a large range of output. |
Long run marginal cost
Short run marginal cost
Long run average cost
Long run marginal cost
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13 |
All of the following are types of imperfect competition except |
Monopolistic competition
Oligopoly
Monopoly
Unfair competition
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14 |
A monopoly may be self perpetuating because profits may be used for |
research
Cost saving
Technical advance
All of the above
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15 |
Perfect price discrimination means that every customer. |
Buys the same amount
Pays the same price
Pays what she thinks the product is worth
Contributes the same revenue.
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16 |
Comparing a monopoly and a competitive firm the monopolist will. |
Produce less at a lower price
Produce more at a lower price
Produce less at a higher price
Produce less at a lower price
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17 |
A competitive firm produces a level of output at which. |
Price is greater than marginal cost
Price equals marginal cost
Price is less than marginal cost
None of the above
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18 |
A competitive firms demand curve is. |
Horizontal
Vertical
Down ward sloping
Fairly elastic
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19 |
For perfect competition ot work there must be |
Many buyers and sellers
A standard product
Free entry and exit
All of the above
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For a competitive firm its short run supply curve is ________ and its long run supply curve is. |
SMC , LMC
SMC above SAVC, LMC above LAC
SMC below SAVC, LMC above LAC
SMC Below SAVC, LMC below LAC
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