UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
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BBA (2019 Admission)
Semester I
Complementary Course
BBA1C01 Managerial Economics
QUESTION BANK
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- A utility function shows the relation between ..... - The amount of goods consumed and a consumer utility.
- Income and a consumer utility.
- Prices and consumers utility.
- Maximum utility and the price and income facing a consumer.
 
- __________ is known as father of economics - Marshal
- Robins
- Adam smith
- A C Pigou
 
- The famous book on economics “An Enquiry into the Nature and Cause of Wealth of Nation” was written by - Marshal
- Ricardo
- Robins
- Adam smith
 
- Welfare (neo classical) definition of economics is given by - JB Say
- Lionel Robbins
- Adam Smith
- Alfred Marshall
 
- If the income elasticity of demand is that one, the good is a - Necessity
- Luxury
- Substitute
- Complement
 
- The income elasticity of demand is negative for a - Positive good
- Normal good
- Elastic good
- Inferior good
 
- What effect is working when the price of a good falls and consumers tend to buy it instead of other goods - Income effect
- Substitution effect
- Price effect
- None of these
 
- “A rupee tomorrow is worth less than a rupee today" relates to - Opportunity cost principle
- Discounting principle
- Equi-marginal principle
- None of these
 
- Basic economic tools of managerial economics does not include - Principle of time perspective
- Equi-marginal principle
- Incremental principle
- None of these
 
- __________ principle is closely related to the marginal costs and marginal revenue of economic theory - Principle of time perspective
- Equi-marginal principle
- Incremental principle
- None of these
 
- Analysis of long run and short run affects of decisions on revenue as well as costs is based on - Principle of time perspective
- Equi-marginal principle
- incremental principle
- None of these
 
- Two goods that are used jointly to provide satisfaction are called - Inferior goods
- Normal goods
- Complementary goods
- Substitute goods
 
- Demand curve slopes downwards because of - The law of diminishing marginal utility
- The income effect
- Substitution effect
- All of the above
 
- If the income and substitution effect of a price increase works in the same direction the good whose price has changed is a - Giffen goods
- Inferior goods
- Normal goods
- Superior
 
- Which of the following is not a survey method of demand forecasting - Consumers interview method
- Expert opinion method
- Barometric method
- Collective opinion method
 
- Which of the following is not a method of demand forecasting - Trend projection method
- Substitute approach
- Sales experience approach
- Evolutionary approach
 
- Which one is not a property of isoquant - Downward sloping
- Convex
- Negative slope
- Positive slope
 
- In which production function, the degree of homogeneity is always one - Cobb doubglas production fuction
- Homogeneous production function
- Linear homogeneous production function
- None of these
 
- Which of the following is a short run law - Law of diminishing returns
- Law of constant returns to scale
- Law increasing returns to scale
- None of these
 
- Which of the following is not a variable input - Raw material
- Power
- Equipment
- None of these
 
- Which cost is more useful for decision making - Opportunity cost
- Sunk cost
- Historical cost
- None of these
 
- Which cost are recorded in books of accounts - Opportunity cost
- Implicit cost
- Social cost
- Explicit cost
 
- Fixed cost per unit increases when - Volume of production decreases
- Volume of production increases
- Variable cost per unit decreases
- None of these
 
- Variable cost per unit - Remains fixed
- Varies with the volume of production
- Varies with sales
- None of these
 
- Firms in an oligopoly - Are independent of each other's action
- Can each influence the market price
- Charge a price equal to marginal revenue
- All of these
 
- Duopoly is - Another name for monopoly
- Special type of monopolistic competition
- Two firm oligopoly
- None of these
 
- Product differentiation is an important feature of - Perfect competition
- Monopolistic competition
- Monopoly
- None of these
 
- __________ refers to the quantity of a good or service that producers are willing and able to sell during a certain period under a given set of conditions - Supply
- Demand
- Price
- Production
 
- __________ for a product is a statement of the relation between the quantity supplied and all factors affecting that quantity - Market demand function
- Production function
- Market supply function
- All of the above
 
- Which is/are determinants of Supply....... - Price of the commodity
- State of Technology
- Cost of Production
- All the above
 
- __________ a statement in the form of a table that shows the different quantities of a commodity that a firm or a producer offers for sale in the market at different prices. - Supply schedule
- Production schedule
- Demand schedule
- Price schedule
 
- __________ a schedule that depicts the supply by an individual firm or producer of a commodity in relation to its price - Market price schedule
- Market Supply Schedule
- Individual Supply Schedule
- None of them
 
- __________ is the degree of responsiveness of supply to changes in the price of a good - Elasticity of demand
- Elasticity of supply
- Both (a) & (b)
- None of them
 
- Business Economics is also known as... - Managerial Economics
- Economics for Executives
- Economic analysis for business decisions
- All the above
 
- An input should be so allocated that the value added by the last unit is the same in all cases. - Opportunity Cost Principle
- Equi-Marginal Principle
- Incremental Principle
- Discounting Principle
 
- The principle reasons behind economic problems - Unlimited wants
- Limited or Scarce of Means
- Alternatives Uses of Means
- All of the above
 
- Managerial utility function is expressed as: - U = S (S, M, I)
- U = S (S, M)
- U = f (S, M, I)
- U = F (S, M, I)
 
- The value of an entrepreneur's resources that she uses in production are known as: - Explicit costs.
- Sunk costs.
- Operating expenses.
- Implicit costs.
 
- Inflation is: - A decrease in the overall level of economic activity.
- An increase in the overall level of economic activity.
- An increase in the overall price level.
- A decrease in the overall price level.
 
- A recession is: - A period of declining unemployment
- A period of declining prices
- A period during which aggregate output declines
- A period of very rapidly declining prices.
 
- Opportunity cost means - The accounting cost minus the marginal benefit.
- The highest-valued alternative forgone.
- The monetary costs of an activity.
- The accounting cost minus the marginal cost
 
- __________ is economic theory used in business whereas __________ is economics theory used in business and non-business organization - Micro economics, macro economics
- Business economics, managerial economics
- Positive economics and normative economics
- None of these
 
- Managerial economics is also called - Micro economics
- Theory of the firm
- Economics of the firm
- All of the above.
 
- Want satisfying power of commodity is called - Demand
- Utility
- Satisfaction
- Consumption
 
- In economics, desire backed by purchasing power is known as - Utility
- Demand
- Consumption
- Scarcity
 
- The demand has three essentials - Desire, Purchasing power and ........... - Quantity
- Cash
- Supply
- Willingness to purchase
 
- .......... means an attempt to determine the factors affecting the demand of a commodity or service and to measure such factors and their influences - Demand planning
- Demand forecasting
- Demand analysis
- Demand estimation
 
- .......... is known as the 'first law in market" - Law of supply
- Law of consumption
- Law of demand
- Law of production
 
- Demand = Desires + .......... + Willingness to pay - Supply
- Utility
- Want
- Purchasing power
 
- Law of demand shows the functional relationship between __________ and quantity demanded - Supply
- Cost
- Price
- Requirements
 
- Basic assumptions of law of demand include - Prices of other goods should change.
- There should be substitute for the commodity.
- The commodity should not confer any distinction.
- The demand for the commodity should not be continuous
 
- Generally demand curve have __________ - Negative slope
- Positive slope
- Horizontal line
- Vertical line
 
- The change in demand due to change in price only, where other factors remaining constant, it is called.......... - Shift in demand
- Extension of demand
- Contraction of demand
- Both extension and contraction
 
- When the quantity demanded of a commodity rises due to a fall in price, it is called - Extension
- Upward shift
- Downward shift
- Contraction
 
- When the quantity demanded falls due to a rise in price, it is called - Extension
- Upward shift
- Downward shift
- Contraction
 
- The Giffen goods are __________ Goods - Inferior goods
- Superior goods
- Related goods
- Same goods
 
- Higher the price of certain luxurious articles, higher will be the demand, this concept is called - Giffen effects
- Veblen effects
- Demonstration effects
- Both b & c above
 
- Demand for milk, sugar, tea for making tea, is an example of - Composite demand
- Derivative demand
- Joint demand
- Direct demand
 
- Demand for milk, sugar, tea for making tea, is an example of - Composite demand
- Derivative demand
- Joint demand
- Direct demand
 
- Perfect elasticity is known as - Finite elastic
- Infinite elastic
- Unitary elastic
- Zero elastic
 
- In the case of perfect elasticity, the demand curve is - Vertical
- Horizontal
- Flat
- Steep
 
- In a perfectly competitive market, individual firm - Cannot influence the price of its product
- Can influence the price of its product
- Can fix the price of its product
- Can influence the market force
 
- Perfect competition is characterized by - Large number of buyers and sellers
- Homogeneous product
- Free entry and exit of firms
- All of the above
 
- The market with a single producer - Perfect competition
- Monopolistic competition
- Oligopoly
- Monopoly
 
- Selling cost is the feature of the market form - Monopoly
- Monopolistic competition
- Oligopoly
- None of these
 
- The product under monopolistic competition are - Differentiated with close substitute
- Perfect substitute
- Differentiated without close substitute
- Homogeneous
 
- In business cycle concept, the period of “long wave” is of; - 25 years
- 50 years
- 100 years
- 200 years
 
- In economics __________ means 'a state of rest or 'stability' - Depression
- Equilibrium
- Maturity
- growth
 
- Selling at a lower price in export market and at a higher price at home market is called - Export subsidy
- Dumping
- Price cut
- All the above
 
- A fall in the price of a commodity leads to - A shift in demand
- A fall in demand
- A rise in the consumer's real income
- A fall in the consumer's real income
 
- An exceptional demand curve is one that slopes - Upward to the left
- Downward to the right
- Horizontally
- Upward to the right
 
- Which one is not an exception to the Law of Demand? - Normal good
- Articles of Distinction
- Ignorance
- Inferior good
 
- Demand for a commodity is elastic when it has: - Only one use
- Uses which cannot be postponed
- Many uses
- Uses very essential for the consumer
 
- When the demand curve is a rectangular hyperbola, it represents: - Perfectly elastic demand
- Unitary elastic demand
- Perfectly inelastic demand
- Relatively elastic demand
 
- The horizontal demand curve for a commodity shows that its demand is: - Perfectly elastic
- Highly elastic
- Perfectly inelastic
- Moderately elastic
 
- When an individual's income falls (while everything else remains the same), his demand for an inferior good: - Increases
- Decrease
- Remains unchanged
- We cannot say without additional information
 
- A fall in the price of a commodity whose demand curve is a rectangular hyperbola causes total expenditure on the commodity to: - Increases
- Decrease
- Remains unchanged
- Any of the above
 
- The utility may be defined as: - The desire for a commodity
- The usefulness of a commodity
- The necessity of a commodity
- The power of a commodity to satisfy wants
 
- The utility of a commodity is: - Its expected social value
- The extent of its practical use
- Its relative scarcity
- The degree of its fashion
 
- Marginal utility curve of a given consumer is also his: - Indifference curve
- Total utility curve
- Demand curve
- Supply curve
 
- The relationship between demand for a commodity and price, ceteris paribus, is: - Negative
- Positive
- Non-negative
- Non-positive
 
- A demand curve which takes the form of horizontal line parallel to quantity axis illustrates elasticity which is: - Zero
- Infinite
- Greater than one
- Less than one
 
- Consider a demand curve which takes the form of a straight line cutting both axes. Elasticity at the mid-point of the line would be: - Zero
- One infinite
- Infinite
- Cannot be calculated
 
- The elasticity of demand for a product will be higher: - The more available are substitutes for that product
- The more its buyers demand loyalty
- The more the product is considered a necessity by its buyers
- All of the above
 
- In case of Giffen goods, demand curve will slope: - Vertical
- Horizontal
- Upward
- Downward
 
- Cross elasticity of demand between tea and sugar is: - Positive
- Zero
- Infinity
- Negative
 
- If the percentage increase in quantity of a commodity demanded is its price, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is: - Greater than 1
- Equal to 1
- Less than 1
- Zero
 
- If the quantity of a commodity demanded remains unchanged as its price changes, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is - Greater than 1
- Equal to 1
- Less than 1
- Zero
 
- Unitary elasticity of demand is: - Zero
- Equal to one
- Greater than 1
- Less than 1
 
- The real business cycle theory is most closely related to - Keynesian theory
- Monetarist theory
- The classical theory
- The new Keynesian theory
 
- In the real business cycle model, business cycles are - Efficient and do not represent lost output
- Driven by technology shocks
- Occur when markets clear
- All of the above
 
- Real business cycle proponents argue that - Recessions are caused by movements of output away from the natural rate of output
- Prices and wages are sticky
- Macroeconomics should be based on the same assumptions as microeconomics
- Monetary policy is important in determining recessions
 
- Implicit costs are: - Equal to total fixed costs.
- Comprised entirely of variable costs.
- "payments" for self-employed resources.
- always greater in the short run than in the long run.
 
- The law of diminishing returns states that: - As a firm uses more of a variable resource, given the quantity of fixed resources, the average product of the firm will increase.
- As a firm uses more of a variable resource, given the quantity of fixed resources, marginal product of the firm will eventually decrease.
- In the short run, the average total costs of the firm will eventually diminish.
- In the long run, the average total costs of the firm will eventually diminish.
 
- The law of diminishing returns only applies in cases where: - there is increasing scarcity of factors of production.
- the price of extra units of a factor is increasing.
- there is at least one fixed factor of production.
- capital is a variable input.
 
- The marginal product of labour curve shows the change in total product resulting from a: - One-unit increase in the quantity of a particular resource used, letting other resources vary.
- One-unit increase in the quantity of a particular resource used, holding constant other resources.
- Change in the cost of a variable resource.
- Change in the cost of a fixed resource.
 
- When the total product curve is falling, the: - marginal product of labour is zero.
- marginal product of labour is negative
- average product of labour is increasing.
- average product of labour must be negative.
 
- When marginal product reaches its maximum, what can be said of total product? - total product must be at its maximum
- total product starts to decline even if marginal product is positive
- total product is increasing if marginal product is still positive
- total product levels off
 
- Variable costs are: - sunk costs.
- multiplied by fixed costs.
- costs that change with the level of production.
- defined as the change in total cost resulting from the production of an additional unit of output.
 
- The reason the marginal cost curve eventually increases as output increases for the typical firm is because: - of diseconomies of scale.
- of minimum efficient scale.
- of the law of diminishing returns.
- normal profit exceeds economic profit.
 
- If the short-run average variable costs of production for a firm are rising, then this indicates that: - average total costs are at a maximum.
- average fixed costs are constant.
- marginal costs are above average variable costs.
- average variable costs are below average fixed costs.
 
- If a more efficient technology was discovered by a firm, there would be: - an upward shift in the AVC curve.
- an upward shift in the AFC curve.
- a downward shift in the AFC curve.
- a downward shift in the MC curve.
 
- The firm's short-run marginal-cost curve is increasing when: - marginal product is increasing.
- marginal product is decreasing.
- total fixed cost is increasing.
- average fixed cost is decreasing.
 
- A firm encountering economies of scale over some range of output will have a: - rising long-run average cost curve.
- falling long-run average cost curve.
- constant long-run average cost curve.
- rising, then falling, then rising long-run average cost curve.
 
- When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has more than doubled, this is known as: - economies of scale.
- constant returns to scale.
- diseconomies of scale.
- a violation of the law of diminishing returns.
 
- The larger the diameter of a natural gas pipeline, the lower is the average total cost of transmitting 1,000 cubic feet of gas 1,000 miles. This is an example of: - economies of scale.
- normative economies.
- diminishing marginal returns.
- an increasing marginal product of labour.
 
- If all resources used in the production of a product are increased by 20 percent and output increases by 20 percent, then there must be: - economies of scale.
- diseconomies of scale.
- constant returns to scale.
- increasing average total costs.
 
- Economies and diseconomies of scale explain why the: - short-run average fixed cost curve declines so long as output increases.
- marginal cost curve must intersect the minimum point of the firm's average total cost curve.
- long-run average total cost curve is typically U-shaped.
- short-run average variable cost curve is U-shaped.
 
- Surplus is a condition of: - excess supply
- a deficiency in supply
- market equilibrium
- excess demand
 
- The effect on sales of an increase in price is a decrease in: - the quantity demanded
- demand
- supply
- the quantity supplied
 
- The quantity of product X supplied can be expected to rise with a fall in: - Prices of competing products
- price of X
- energy savings technical charge
- input prices
 
- Firms under perfectly competitive markets generally are - Price makers
- Price givers
- Price taker
- None of these
 
- The concept of product differentiation was introduced by - TR Malthus
- JM Keynes
- Mrs. Robinson
- Chamberlin
 
- The architect of the theory of monopolistic competition - Rosenstein Roden
- JR Hicks
- Karl Marx
- Chamberlin
 
- The concept of monopsony was invented by: - Marshall
- AP. Learner
- Chamberlin
- Mrs. J. Robinson
 
- A cost that has already been committed and cannot be recovered known as: - Sunk cost
- Total cost
- Full cost
- Variable cost
 
- __________ is situation of severely falling prices and lowest level of economic activities - Boom
- Recovery
- Recession
- Depression
 
- __________ is situation with increased investment and increased price - Recession
- Progress
- Boom
- Recovery
 
- A graph indicating different combination of inputs with different level of output is called - Iso-cost map
- BEP map
- Input-output map
- Iso-quant map
 
- Iso-cost line indicate the price of - Output
- Inputs
- Finished goods
- Raw material
 
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