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Managerial Economics

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Masters Degree MBA Quiz am Managerial Economics, erstellt von Clair Hat am 11/03/2016.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

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All economic questions are about:
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  • how to make money
  • what to produce
  • how to cope with scarcity
  • how to satisfy all our wants

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Macroeconomics deals with:
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  • the behaviour of firms
  • economic aggregates
  • the activities of individual units
  • the behaviour of the electronics industry

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Microeconomics is not concerned with the behaviour of:
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  • aggregate demand
  • consumers
  • industries
  • firms

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The study of inflation is part of:
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  • normative economics
  • macroeconomics
  • microeconomics
  • descriptive economics

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The word that comes from Greek for "one who manages a household" is:
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  • market
  • consumer
  • producer
  • economy

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What are the two major functions of a managerial economist?
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  • decision-making and profit management
  • decision-making and capital management
  • decision-making and forward planning
  • pricing decisions and policies & practices

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Which of the following statements about factors of production is false?
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  • The factor of production termed capital means the money which the owners of the firms need in order to set their firms up.
  • The term "factors of production" is another term for resources
  • The factor of production termed labour means human resources
  • The factor of production termed land means natural resources

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Which of the following statements about the use of resources is not one of the key questions in economics?
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  • How are resources used?
  • Where are resources used?
  • For what are resources used?
  • For whom are resources used?

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What is meant by intermediate goods and services?
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  • The same as capital goods, such as plant, buildings, vehicles, and machinery.
  • Products which one firm buys off another and then uses up in its own products
  • All inputs bought by the firms, including labour and raw materials
  • Imports

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What is meant by the term final goods and services?
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  • The same as the term intermediate goods and services
  • The same as the term consumer goods and services
  • All goods and services except those traded second hand
  • Goods and services which are finished as far as the economy is concerned

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Which of the following statements is true?
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  • Microeconomics is concerned with the economy as a whole
  • Macroeconomics is concerned with individual markets
  • Governments have no influence over market prices
  • When economists study the price in a market, their chief aims are to understand why the price is what it is and why it might change

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Which of the following types of economy describes the economy of the UK?
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  • A command economy
  • A market economy
  • A mixed economy
  • A planned economy

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The supply and demand model applies when three of the following four conditions are met. Which condition is not required?
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  • There must be many buyers
  • There must be many sellers
  • The buyers and sellers must trade an identical item
  • The item traded must be a product

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Suppose a market is in equilibrium, and then the demand increases. Which of the following would be shown on a graph that illustrated the effects?
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  • An excess demand at the initial equilibrium price.
  • An excess demand at the new equilibrium price.
  • An excess supply at the initial equilibrium price.
  • An excess supply at the new equilibrium price.

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Suppose there is excess supply in a market and the price decreases. Which of the following combinations of events will occur?
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  • There will be a fall in quantity supplied and a rise in quantity demanded.
  • There will be a fall in quantity supplied and a rise in demand.
  • There will be a fall in supply and a rise in quantity demanded.
  • There will be a fall in supply and a rise in demand.

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Suppose there is a decrease in supply in a market where the supply curve slopes upwards and the demand curve slopes downwards. Which of the following would not occur?
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  • An excess supply
  • A fall in price
  • A fall in supply
  • A fall in the equilibrium level of expenditure

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Which of the following statements is false?
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  • Price elasticity of demand is negative for most products
  • Price elasticity of supply is positive for most products
  • Income elasticity of demand is positive for normal goods
  • Cross elasticity of demand is positive between complements

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If the demand curve shifts to the right, then we move up and to the right along our supply curve.
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  • True
  • False

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According to the Law of Demand, the demand curve for a good will
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  • shift leftward when the price of a good increases
  • shift rightward when the price of a good increases
  • slope downward
  • slope upward

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If government regulations prohibit the production of a particular good, the demand curve for that good will most likely...
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  • shift leftward
  • shift rightward
  • remain unchanged
  • disappear

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Suppose there are 100 identical firms in the rag industry, and each firm is willing to supply 10 rags at any price. The market supply curve will be a...
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  • vertical line where Q = 10
  • vertical line where Q = 100
  • vertical line where Q = 1000
  • horizontal line where Q = 1000

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Equilibrium is defined as a situation in which:
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  • neither buyers or sellers want to change their behaviour
  • no government regulations exist
  • demand curves are perfectly horizontal
  • suppliers will supply any amount that buyers want to buy

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A competitive equilibrium is described by
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  • a price only
  • a quantity only
  • the excess supply minus the excess demand
  • a price and a quantity

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When two goods are substitutes, a shock that raises the price of one good causes the price of the other good to...
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  • remain unchanged
  • decrease
  • increase
  • change in an unpredictable manner

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The percentage change in the quantity demanded in response to a percentage change in the price is known as the:
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  • slope of the demand curve
  • excess demand
  • price elasticity of demand
  • None of the examples

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If the price elasticity of demand for a good is less than one in absolute terms, we say consumers of this good...
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  • are not very sensitive to price
  • are not very sensitive to the quantity they demand
  • are very sensitive to price
  • are elastic

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A market is considered imperfectly competitive whenever...
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  • the government intervenes to set a price floor
  • supply and demand explain how prices are determined
  • a single buyer or seller has the power to affect the price of the product
  • supply and demand fail to establish an equilibrium

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In a market system, prices are determined by:
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  • Government bureaucrats
  • Supply and demand
  • Total market demand
  • Production costs

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If buyers expect the price of a good to rise in the future, the result is...
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  • a decrease in supply today
  • an increase in supply today
  • an increase in quantity demanded today
  • an increase in demand today

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If the cross-price elasticity of demand between two goods is negative, then...
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  • the two goods are complements
  • the two goods are substitutes
  • one of the goods must be inferior
  • the two goods are rarely used together by consumers

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If the price elasticity of demand for a good is 0.75 , the demand for that good can be described as:
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  • Normal
  • Elastic
  • Inferior
  • Inelastic

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If the income elasticity of demand for a good is negative, then the good is:
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  • a normal good
  • an inferior good
  • a luxury good
  • a Giffen good

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What kind of relationship exists between the price of a good and demand of its complementary good?
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  • Direct
  • Inverse
  • No effect
  • Can be direct or inverse

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Law of Demand does not hold in case of:
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  • Emergency
  • Expectation of price rise
  • Conspicuous goods
  • All of the answers

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If value of Es < 1, it is called:
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  • Elastic supply
  • Inelastic supply
  • Perfectly elastic supply
  • Perfectly inelastic supply

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In the short-run, which of the following always gets smaller as output increases?
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  • Average fixed cost
  • Average variable cost
  • Short-run average cost
  • Short-run marginal cost

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Which of the following statements about a profit-maximising firm is false?
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  • It might set its daily output at a higher level in the short-run than in the long-run.
  • It might set its daily output at a lower level in the short-run than in the long-run.
  • If it had a daily output of zero in the short-run, it would be sure to have a total cost of zero.
  • If it had a daily output of zero in the long-run, it would be sure to have a total cost of zero.

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Implicit costs are:
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  • equal to total fixed costs
  • comprised entirely of variable costs
  • "payments" for self-employed resource
  • always greater in the short-run than in the long-run

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If a firm's revenues just cover all its opportunity costs, then;
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  • normal profit is zero
  • economic profit is zero
  • total revenues equal its explicit costs
  • total revenues equal its implicit costs

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The short-run is a time period in which...
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  • all resources are fixed
  • the level of output is fixed
  • the size of the production plant is variable
  • some resources are fixed and others are variable

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The law of diminishing returns only applies in cases where:
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  • 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

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Variable costs are:
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  • 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

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If the short-run average variable costs of production for a firm are rising, then this indicates that:
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  • 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

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When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has more than doubled, this is known as:
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  • economies of scale
  • constant returns to scale
  • diseconomies of scale
  • a violation of the law of diminishing returns

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Economies and diseconomies of scale explain why the:
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  • 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

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The law of diminishing returns states that:
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  • 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

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Opportunity costs arise in production because:
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  • resources are unlimited
  • resources must be shifted away from producing one good in order to produce another
  • wants are limited in a society
  • monetary costs of inputs usually outweigh non-monetary costs

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Costs which increase with an increase in output are called:
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  • Fixed costs
  • Changeable costs
  • Variable costs
  • Unchangeable costs

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Costs which do not increase with an increase in output are called:
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  • Fixed costs
  • Changeable costs
  • Variable costs
  • Unchangeable costs

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Marginal cost is:
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  • The addition to cost associated with one additional unit of output
  • The per unit cost of production
  • The per unit variable cost of production
  • The per unit fixed cost of production
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