A. monopoly
B. entropy
C. industry
D. cartel
Related Mcqs:
- The ability of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to maximize profits is hampered by ?
A. a lack of substitutes for oil
B. similar cost schedules for member countries
C. highly inelastic world demand curve for oil
D. economic recession for oil importing nations - If input price prices adjusted very rapidly to output prices as classical economists argue the Philips curve would be ?
A. Vertical or nearly vertical
B. upward sloping
C. downward sloping
D. horizontal or nearly horizontal - Engineers for the All-Terrain Bike Company have determined that a 15% increase in all inputs will cause a 15% increase in output Assuming that input prices remain constant, you correctly deduce that such a change will cause ________ as output increases?
A. average costs to remain constant
B. average costs to decrease
C. average costs to increase
D. marginal costs to increase - Central banks prefer to fix the ____ and accept the resulting _____?
A. demand for money, interest rate
B. interest rate equilibrium money supply
C. demand for money equilibrium money supply
D. interest rate, demand for money - If a government were to fix a minimum wage for adult workers, economists would predict ?
A. wages in general would fall as employers tried to hold down costs
B. fewer young workers would be employed
C. the costs and prices of firms employing cheap labour would increase
D. there would be more unemployment - Real GDP is measured in __________ prices while nominal GDP is measured in _________ prices?
A. foreign; domestic
B. current year; base year
C. domestic; foreign
D. base year; current year
E. intermediate; final - A number of relating prices of a group of commodities to their prices during an arbitrarily chosen based period is called ?
A. Price index
B. Price indexing
C. Price fixing
D. Price choosing - When supply exceeds demand, sellers must lower prices to stimulate sales, when demand exceeds supply, prices increase as buyers compete to buy goods. What this theory is called in economics?
A. Cost push theory
B. Supply and Demand theory
C. Fundamental theory
D. Ricardo’s theory - In certain industries Japanese employers hesitate to lay off workers Therefore they sometimes have excess supplies of goods that they cannot sell on the home market without lowering prices. To hold down losses they sell goods in overseas markets at prices well beneath those in japan This practice is best referred to as ?
A. Orderly marketing
B. trigger pricing
C. domestic content pricing
D. dumping - Which of the following country has 25 percent of the world’s estimated oil reserves and the lowest cost production as well as a dominant role in OPEC pricing ?
A. Russia
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Iraq
D. Venezuela
