A. The average preferred outcome wins
B. There is no clear winner due to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.
C. The outcome preferred by the median voter wins
D. The outcome preferred by the greatest number of voters wins.
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose that 40 percent of the voting population wish to spent Rs1,000 for artwork in City Hall, 25 percent wish to spent Rs20,000 and 35 percent wish to spend Rs 22,000 What is the median preferred outcome, the average preferred outcome and the modal preferred outcome ?
A. Rs20,000; Rs20,000; Rs22,000
B. Rs1,000; Rs14,333; Rs1,000
C. Rs20,000; Rs13,100; Rs1,000
D. Rs1,000; Rs20,000; Rs22,000 - Which of the following is not true regarding the outcome of a consumer’s optimization process ?
A. The marginal utility per dollar spent on each good is the same
B. The marginal rate of substitution between goods is equal to the ratio of the prices between goods
C. The consumer’s indifference curve is tangent to his budget constraint
D. The consumer has reached his highest indifference curve subject to his budget constraint
E. The consumer is indifferent between any two points on his budget constraint - Which of the following statements best describes the outcome under monopolistic competition ?
A. In monopolistic competition, there are too many firms and each firm produce a slightly different product at a scale that is less than optimal
B. In monopolistic competition there are too few firms and each firm produce a slightly different product at scale that is greater than optimal
C. in monopolistic competition there is the correct number of firm and each firm produces a slightly different product at an optimal scale.
D. In monopolistic competition there are too many firms and each firm produce a slightly different product at the optimal scale - Which of the following statements best describes the outcome under monopolistic competition ?
A. It is efficient because the right amount of output is produced, but not efficient in that the output produced is produced at a cost above minimum average total cost
B. It is efficient because entry is free and economic profits are eliminated in the long run.
C. It is not efficient because too little output is produced and the output that is produced is produced at a cost above minimum average total cost
D. It is not efficient because too little output is produced but is efficient in that the output produced is produced at minimum average total cost. - Developments in a national economy can affect the outcome of an international financial transaction. What this process is called ?
A. International economic risk
B. Country economic risk
C. Ultra-country economic risk
D. Outcome risk - Adam smith’s invisible hand concept suggests that a competitive market outcome ?
A. maximizes total surplus
B. generates equality among the members of society
C. minimizes total surplus
D. both maximizes total surplus and generates equality among the members of society - If oligopolists engage in collusion and successfully from a cartel, the market outcome is ?
A. the same as if it were served by competitive firms.
B. efficient because cooperation improves efficiency
C. the same as if it were served by a monopoly.
D. known as a Nash equilibrium - The conclusion that free, unregulated markets will produce an efficient outcome breaks down if ?
A. households do not have perfect information
B. firms are not price takers in input markets
C. firms are not price takers in the output market
D. all of the above - Moral hazard means that the act of insuring ____ that the desired outcome will occur?
A. reduces the likelihood
B. increases the likelihood
C. guarantees
D. none of the above - Which of the following is not true about how people make decisions ?
A. people give too much weight to a small number of vivid observations
B. People are sometimes too sure of their own abilities
C. All of these answers are actually true statements about how people make decisions.
D. People are always rational maximizers
E. People are reluctant to change their minds in the face of new information
