Percentage of total industry sales that a particular company controls is called ?

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1. A firm in perfectly competitive industry is producing 50 units, its profit-maximising quantity. Industry price is £2 and total fixed costs and total variable cost are £25 and £40 respectively. The firm’s economic profit is ?

   A. £35
   B. £15
   C. £30
   D. £60

2. Suppose the equilibrium price for apartments is Rs500 per month and the government imposes rent controls of Rs250 Which of the following is unlikely to to occur as a result of the rent controls?

   A. There may be long lines of buyers waiting for apartments
   B. Landlords may discriminate among apartment renters
   C. Landlords may be offered bribes to rent apartments
   D. there will be a storage of housing
   E. the quality of apartments will improve

3. You are planning to run a hot dog stand during a forthcoming fair. You originally estimated that you will generated sales revenue of Rs 2000 and you have already spent Rs 1000 building the hot dog stand. The hot dog stand is nearly completed but now you estimate total sales to be only Rs 800 because the fair clashes with a major music festival in a nearby location. You can complete the hot dog stand for another Rs 300 Your decision rule should be to complete the hot dog stand as long as the cost to complete the stand is less than ?

   A. Rs 300
   B. Rs 1000
   C. Rs 500
   D. Rs 800

4. Suppose an industry emits a negative externality such a pollution and the possible methods to internalize the externality are command-and-control policies, pigovian taxes, and tradable pollution permits. If economists were to rank these methods for internalizing a negative externality based on efficiency ease of implementation and the incentive for the industry to further reduce pollution in the future, they would probably rank them in the following order (from most favored to least favored) ?

   A. Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits.
   B. tradable pollution permits, Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies
   C. tradable pollution permits command-and-control policies, Pigovian taxes.
   D. command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits, Pigovian taxes.
   E. They would all rank equally high because the same result can be obtained from any one of the policies

5. Assume that firms in an oligopoly are currently colluding to set price and output to maximise total industry profit. If the oligopolists are forced to stop colluding, the price charged by the oligopolists will _________ and the total output produced will __________?

   A. decrease; decrease
   B. increase; decrease
   C. decrease; increase
   D. increase; increase

6. When a company reviews sales costs and profit projections for a new product to find out whether these factors satisfy the company’s objectives they are in which of the following new process development stages ?

   A. Concept development and testing
   B. Commercialization
   C. Business analysis
   D. Marketing strategy development

7. In 1985, the Coca-cola Company made a classic marketing blunder with its deletion of its popular Coca-Cola product and introduction of what it called New Coke Analysts now believe that most of the company’s problems resulted from poor marketing research. As the public demanded their old Coke back the company relented and reintroduced Coca-Cola Classic (which has regained and surpassed its former position) while New Coke owns only 0.1 percent of the market Which of the following marketing research mistakes did Coca-Cola make ?

   A. They did not investigate pricing correctly and priced the product too high
   B. They did not investigate dealer reaction and had inadequate distribution
   C. They defined their marketing research problem too narrowly
   D. They failed to account for the Pepsi Challenge taste test in their marketing efforts

8. One percentage decrease in unemployment is associated with two percentage points of additional growth in real gdp is called?

   A. Okun’s Law
   B. classical theory
   C. Consumer price index
   D. none of the above

   Submitted by: Maneesh Kumar

9. What is called the trade without restriction of tariffs, quotas, or foreign exchange controls ?

   A. Open trade
   B. Free trade
   C. Open sky trade
   D. Easy trade

10. Economic system in which the government owns and controls the means of production to benefit all the people is called ?

    A. Dictatorship
    B. Socialism
    C. Capitalism
    D. Authoritarianism